The N400 response is one of the best-studied ERP components associated with language processing. Manipulations such as semantic priming ('coffee' → 'tea') and contextual fit ('I like my coffee with ...
For more than 50 years, linguists and computer scientists have tried to get computers to understand human language by programming semantics as software, with mixed results. Enabled by supercomputers, ...
VerbNet (Kipper-Schuler 2005) is a hierarchical domain- independent, broad-coverage verb lexicon with mappings to several widely-used verb resources, including WordNet (Miller 1990, Fellbaum 1998), ...
Research areas include: NLP for low-resource scenarios, especially lower-resourced and minoritized languages and language users; human-robot interaction, and the representation of language in the mind ...
"This chart shows the lexical distance — that is, the degree of overall vocabulary divergence — among the major languages of Europe. "The size of each circle represents the number of speakers for that ...