Perceptual and Linguistic Information in Models of Semantic Representation

The readings for this week are

Read these two for sure:

Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (to appear). Perceptual inference from global lexical structure. Topics in Cognitive Science.

Riordan, B., & Jones, M. N. (2011). Redundancy in linguistic and perceptual experience: Comparing distributional and feature-based models of semantic representation. Topics in Cognitive Science, 3:2, 303-345.

This one is optional:

Johns, B. T., & Jones, M. N. (2010). Evaluating the random representation assumption of lexical semantics in cognitive models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 662-672.

Latent semantic analysis and Neighborhoods

The reading for this week is:

Read this carefully:

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/dp1.LSAintro.pdf

Read this, skip the math if you want:

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/p995.pdf

Read these if you are interested (optional):

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/xhu1.pdf
https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/xhu2.pdf

Metaphor

The readings for this week are here:

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/kreuz_readings.zip

There are 2 papers from 2 different perspectives :)

Concepts

The reading for this week is

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/aolney/internal/cogsci_readings/bb_concepts.pdf

It's a little long, but good :)