Dictionary Definitions

. The distinction between concrete and abstract concepts is psychologically valid but so far it can hardly be quantified in any objective way, which prevents it from being further studied …...

Studies of the graph of dictionary definitions (DD) (Picard et al., 2009; Levary et al., 2012) have revealed strong semantic coherence of local topological structures. The techniques used in these …...

This study aims to investigate the occurrences of opposites in Mandarin four-word idioms. We used the Revised Ministry of Education Online Dictionary to search for a total of 12 combinations …...

AbstractHuman innovation in language, such as inventing new words, is a challenge for pretrained language models. We assess the ability of one large model, GPT-3, to process new words and …...