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Research methods in psycholinguistics: developing a tool for the automatic generation of pseudo-verbs

Mota, Mailce and Resende, Natália orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-5248-2457 (2013) Research methods in psycholinguistics: developing a tool for the automatic generation of pseudo-verbs. Letras de Hoje, 48 (1). pp. 100-107. ISSN 0101-3335

Abstract
The use of pseudo-words has benefitted psycholinguistic studies dedicated to the different aspects of the acquisition and processing of language, including reading and writing. However, in most of the studies that make use of pseudowords, the combination of graphemes in a string is often based on the intuition of researchers, who generally do not take the frequency of structural occurrences of the language into consideration. The present study aims at contributing to the development of procedures to aid research which makes use of pseudowords. In this paper, we present a computational tool developed for the generation of pseudoverbs. The process of development of this tool involved the analysis of the structural patterns of the 500 most frequent verbs in Brazilian Portuguese. This analysis was carried out with the use of NLP techniques and data mining in order to collect and extract patterns. The present study adopted an unsupervised machine learning approach since it used an algorithm of clustering for the automatic generation of pseudo-verbs.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Pseudo-words; Pseudo-verbs; Data mining; Computational tool; Unsupervised Machine Learning
Subjects:Computer Science > Artificial intelligence
Engineering > Systems engineering
Humanities > Linguistics
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Institutes and Centres > ADAPT
Publisher:ediPUCRS for Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul
Official URL:http://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/...
Copyright Information:© 2013 The Authors. CC-BY-4.0
Funders:Coordenação de aperfeiçoamento de pessoal de nível superior
ID Code:24548
Deposited On:12 Jun 2020 12:33 by Natalia Resende . Last Modified 12 Jun 2020 12:33
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