Lexical Associations

• Subjects write first word that comes to mind

  • doctor/nurse; black/white (Palermo & Jenkins 64)

• Text Corpora yield similar associations

• One measure: Mutual Information (Church and Hanks 89)

• If word occurrences were independent, the numerator and denominator would be equal (if measured across a large collection)

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