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In the whimsical world of word learning, what makes a word an easy nut to crack? Researchers set out to uncover the secrets by exploring the relationship between predictability and the age at which children start using different words. Using intricate language models, they measured the surprisal or unexpectedness of words in child-directed speech. Turns […]
Imagine you’re trying to classify objects as either small or big. You want to know if there’s a way to use distributional semantic models, which create word vector spaces, to accurately perform this task. Well, scientists developed a cool computational model to find out! They created different models and tested their performance in classifying over […]
People increasingly read text displayed on digital devices, including computers, handheld e-readers, and smartphones. Given this, there is rapidly growing interest in understanding how the cognitive processes that support the reading of static text (e.g., books, magazines, or newspapers) might be adapted to reading digital texts. Evidence from recent experiments suggests a complex interplay of […]
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