Characterizing response types and revealing noun ambiguity in German association norms
Alissa Melinger, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Andréa Weber · Max Planck Digital Library · 2006
This paper presents an analysis of seman-tic association norms for German nouns. In contrast to prior studies, we not only collected associations elicited by written representations of target objects but also by their pictorial representations. In a first analysis, we identified systematic differ-ences in the type and distribution of as-sociate responses for the two presentation forms. In a second analysis, we applied a soft cluster analysis to the collected target-response pairs. We subsequently used the clustering to predict noun ambiguity and to discriminate senses in our target nouns. 1