Corpus-based estimates of word association predict biases in judgment of word co-occurrence likelihood |
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Institution: | 1. Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, 24230-340, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;2. Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ), Departamento de Alimentos, 20270-021 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;3. Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Departamento de Tecnologia de Alimentos, 23890-000, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;4. Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), Departamento de Tecnologia de Alimentos, 49100000 Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil |
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Abstract: | This paper draws a connection between statistical word association measures used in linguistics and confirmation measures from epistemology. Having theoretically established the connection, we replicate, in the new context of the judgments of word co-occurrence, an intriguing finding from the psychology of reasoning, namely that confirmation values affect intuitions about likelihood. We show that the effect, despite being based in this case on very subtle statistical insights about thousands of words, is stable across three different experimental settings. Our theoretical and empirical results suggest that factors affecting traditional reasoning tasks are also at play when linguistic knowledge is probed, and they provide further evidence for the importance of confirmation in a new domain. |
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Keywords: | Word association Confirmation Probability judgment Linguistic corpora |
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