%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.

@article{spence1990lexical, 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.}, added-at = {2011-01-28T11:32:20.000+0100}, 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}, interhash = {75d5913fcca51ebf5fd7e281c36a69e9}, intrahash = {3e0a291d4193c824616c6f73ad0a4101}, 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 }