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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Lang. Sci.
Sec. Language Processing
Volume 3 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/flang.2024.1458887
This article is part of the Research Topic Community Series: Spanish Psycholinguistics - Volume II View all 3 articles

Bridging Natural Language Processing and Psycholinguistics: computationally grounded semantic similarity datasets for Basque and Spanish

Provisionally accepted
Josu Goikoetxea Salutregi Josu Goikoetxea Salutregi *Miren Arantzeta Miren Arantzeta Itziar SanMartin Itziar SanMartin
  • University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

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    We present a computationally-grounded word similarity dataset based on two well-known Natural Language Processing resources; text corpora and knowledge bases. This dataset aims to fill a gap in psycholinguistic research by providing a variety of quantifications of semantic similarity in an extensive set of noun pairs controlled by variables that play a significant role in lexical processing. The dataset creation consisted of three steps, 1) computing four key psycholinguistic features for each noun; concreteness, frequency, semantic and phonological neighbourhood density; 2) pairing nouns across these four variables; 3) for each noun pair, assigning three types of word similarity measurements, computed out of text, Wordnet and hybrid embeddings. The present dataset includes noun pairs' information in Basque and European Spanish, but further work intends to extend it to more languages.

    Keywords: WordNet, text, psycholinguistic features, Word similarity, Embeddings, nouns

    Received: 10 Aug 2024; Accepted: 28 Oct 2024.

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    * Correspondence: Josu Goikoetxea Salutregi, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

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