Abstract
Language researchers have long assumed that concepts can be represented by sets of semantic features, and have traditionally encountered challenges in identifying a feature set that could be sufficiently general to describe the human conceptual experience in its entirety. In the dataset of English norms presented by Binder et al. (2016), also known as Binder norms, the authors introduced a new set of neurobiologically motivated semantic features in which conceptual primitives were defined in terms of modalities of neural information processing. However, no comparable norms are currently available for other languages. In our work, we built the Mandarin Chinese norm by translating the stimuli used in the original study and developed a comparable collection of human ratings for Mandarin Chinese. We also conducted some experiments on the automatic prediction of the Chinese Binder Norms based on the word embeddings of the corresponding words to assess the feasibility of modeling experiential semantic features via corpus-based representations.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.iwcs-1.24
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Nancy, France
- Editors:
- Maxime Amblard, Ellen Breitholtz
- Venue:
- IWCS
- SIG:
- SIGSEM
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 240–245
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.iwcs-1.24
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Le Qiu, Yu-Yin Hsu, and Emmanuele Chersoni. 2023. Collecting and Predicting Neurocognitive Norms for Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics, pages 240–245, Nancy, France. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Collecting and Predicting Neurocognitive Norms for Mandarin Chinese (Qiu et al., IWCS 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/naacl-24-ws-corrections/2023.iwcs-1.24.pdf