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Zipf's laws of meaning in Catalan
Neus Català, Jaume Baixeries, Ramon Ferrer-Cancho +2
In his pioneering research, G. K. Zipf formulated a couple of statistical laws on the relationship between the frequency of a word with its number of meanings: the law of meaning d…
Coin_flipper at eHealth-KD Challenge 2019: Voting LSTMs for Key Phrases and Semantic Relation Identification Applied to Spanish eHealth Texts
Neus Català, Mario Martin
This paper describes our approach presented for the eHealth-KD 2019 challenge. Our participation was aimed at testing how far we could go using generic tools for Text-Processing bu…
Polysemy and brevity versus frequency in language
Bernardino Casas, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Neus Català +2
The pioneering research of G. K. Zipf on the relationship between word frequency and other word features led to the formulation of various linguistic laws. The most popular is Zipf…
The polysemy of the words that children learn over time
Bernardino Casas, Neus Català, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho +2
Here we study polysemy as a potential learning bias in vocabulary learning in children. Words of low polysemy could be preferred as they reduce the disambiguation effort for the li…