Showing papers on "Semantic similarity published in 1972"
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple category-search model is considered that explains the category-size effect more directly than does the Collins and Quillian model, and some relevant methodological and theoretical problems are also discussed.
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TL;DR: In this paper, three experiments were carried out to determine the effect of various forms of phonemic similarity and semantic relatedness on free recall, in particular the differential effects of these variables on longterm storage and short-term storage.
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TL;DR: The role of memory in concept identification was investigated by varying the acoustic and semantic similarity of the stimuli used in the CI task, and CI was significantly impaired when the dimensions of a CI task were semantically similar.
Abstract: Since both acoustic and semantic similarity exert an influence on memory, the role of memory in concept identification (CI) was investigated by varying the acoustic and semantic similarity of the stimuli used in the CI task. Varying acoustic similarity had no effect on CI, but CI was significantly impaired when the dimensions of a CI task were semantically similar. Now at Psychology Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
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16 May 1972
TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is to look at the semantic analysis of a subset of natural English text, namely the simple noun phrase, and present the theoretical basis for and the implementation of a semantic analyzer called MEANINGEX.
Abstract: It is the purpose of this paper to look at the semantic analysis of a subset of natural English text, namely the simple noun phrase, and present the theoretical basis for and the implementation of a semantic analyzer called MEANINGEX. A "simple" noun phrase is defined as a noun modified by adjectives and/or prepositional phrases. Throughout the paper, examples will be given from medical record text because of my own orientation and because the desirability of semantic analysis of specific types of phrases provided the motivation for my study of meaning. I look at the basic operational question to be as follows: "How can statements with the same meaning, but which are said in different words be transformed to an identical form?" Thus the basic object of the process is to make similar things fall together.
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TL;DR: Seven study-test trials were given on paired-associate lists varying in intralist stimulus similarity, and there was some evidence that semantic similarity did not produce much interference early in learning.
Abstract: Seven study-test trials were given on paired-associate lists varying in intralist stimulus similarity. Stimuli rhymed, were from the same conceptual category, or were dissimilar. Study time was constant at 2 sec/item, but time allowed for recall on paced test trials was either 1 or 3 sec. At the faster rate, the formally similar stimuli produced more interference than did the semantically similar stimuli. There was also some evidence that semantic similarity did not produce much interference early in learning. At the slower rates, the two high-similarity conditions produced substantial but equal amounts of interference. The results are consistent with a sequential coding hypothesis.
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