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摘要
Word activation has caused ample investigations in many different scientific areas. Various theories have long been debated in predicting and interpreting the fundamental language phenomenon. From a perspective of mechanics, this study considers the word activations as imaginary forces and quantifies their amount by adapting the formula of the universal gravitation to the corresponding imaginary masses and distance that are estimated via the statistics of language experience. In large scale experiments, we found that the word activation forces not only straightforwardly predict various kinds of word activations, but also lead to a simple and human-comparably accurate measure to identify word closest associates including synonyms, near-synonyms, antonyms and similar functional words. The plausibility of identified closest associates with over 10,000 popular English words is highly inspiring.
- 出版日期2012-10
- 单位北京大学
