Supplemental Material for Let the Algorithm Speak: How to Use Neural Networks for Automatic Item Generation in Psychological Scale Development
Psychological Methods · 2022
Statistical language modeling.The key idea of obtaining a numerical representation for a language, which can be viewed as a symbolic sequence, is to define an appropriate probability distribution of symbols (say words 1 ) in a sequence (say a sentence) of that language (say English 2 ) (Bengio et al., 2003).Let {w 1 , w 2 , . . ., w k } indicate a sequence of words, then the joint distribution of the words sequence can be written as the product of conditional distributions of a word given all preceding words in the sequence:(1)