Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: Evaluation and Modelling of Verbal Associations

摘要

We present a quantitative analysis of human word association pairs and studythe types of relations presented in the associations. We put our main focus onthe correlation between response types and respondent characteristics such asoccupation and gender by contrasting syntagmatic and paradigmatic associations.Finally, we propose a personalised distributed word association model and showthe importance of incorporating demographic factors into the models commonlyused in natural language processing.