The 1-million-word Brown corpus was searched for co-occurrences of semantically related pairs of concrete nouns appearing within an arbitrary window of 250 characters. Related pairs of nouns (OCEAN-WATER) co-occur significantly more often than matched, unrelated pairs (OCEAN-HAND), and this difference remained significant within blocks of text up to 1000 characters in length. Frequency of co-occurrence, corrected for chance, is significantly correlated with association strength. Lexical distance between co-occurring members of a given pair is inversely correlated with association strength. Significantly more co-occurrences were found, per unit text, in the fictional sections of the corpus.
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SpringerLink - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research , Volume 19, Number 5
%0 Journal Article
%1 spence1990lexical
%A Spence, Donald P.
%A Owens, Kimberly C.
%D 1990
%I Springer Netherlands
%J Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
%K association nlp cooccurrence toread
%P 317-330
%R 10.1007/BF01074363
%T Lexical co-occurrence and association strength
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01074363
%V 19
%X The 1-million-word Brown corpus was searched for co-occurrences of semantically related pairs of concrete nouns appearing within an arbitrary window of 250 characters. Related pairs of nouns (OCEAN-WATER) co-occur significantly more often than matched, unrelated pairs (OCEAN-HAND), and this difference remained significant within blocks of text up to 1000 characters in length. Frequency of co-occurrence, corrected for chance, is significantly correlated with association strength. Lexical distance between co-occurring members of a given pair is inversely correlated with association strength. Significantly more co-occurrences were found, per unit text, in the fictional sections of the corpus.
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abstract = {The 1-million-word Brown corpus was searched for co-occurrences of semantically related pairs of concrete nouns appearing within an arbitrary window of 250 characters. Related pairs of nouns (OCEAN-WATER) co-occur significantly more often than matched, unrelated pairs (OCEAN-HAND), and this difference remained significant within blocks of text up to 1000 characters in length. Frequency of co-occurrence, corrected for chance, is significantly correlated with association strength. Lexical distance between co-occurring members of a given pair is inversely correlated with association strength. Significantly more co-occurrences were found, per unit text, in the fictional sections of the corpus.},
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affiliation = {Department of Psychiatry Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 08854 Piscataway New Jersey},
author = {Spence, Donald P. and Owens, Kimberly C.},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23e0a291d4193c824616c6f73ad0a4101/dbenz},
description = {SpringerLink - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research , Volume 19, Number 5},
doi = {10.1007/BF01074363},
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issn = {0090-6905},
issue = {5},
journal = {Journal of Psycholinguistic Research },
keyword = {Behavioral Science},
keywords = {association nlp cooccurrence toread},
pages = {317-330},
publisher = {Springer Netherlands},
timestamp = {2013-07-31T15:39:42.000+0200},
title = {Lexical co-occurrence and association strength},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01074363},
volume = 19,
year = 1990
}