A free associative response is the first word a person comes up with after perceiving another word, the so-called associative stimulus. People commonly associate hot to cold, church to priest, and hard to work. According to traditional association theory this behaviour is the result of learning by contiguity: ''Objects once experienced together tend to become associated in the imagination, so that when any one of them is thought of, the others are likely to be thought of also, in the same order of sequence or coexistence as before'' (James, 1890). This explanation has been rejected by cognitive psychologists who explain the production of associations as the result of symbolic processes which make use of complex semantic structures (Clark, 1970). We will show, however, that human associative responses can be predicted from contiguities between words in language use. This finding supports the hypothesis that the behaviour of participants in the free association task can be explained by associative learning.
In this paper we present Morphy, an integrated tool for German morphology, part-ofspeech tagging and context-sensitive lemmatization. Its large lexicon of more than 320,000 word forms plus its ability to process German compound nouns guarantee a wide morphological coverage. Syntactic ambiguities can be resolved with a standard statistical part-of-speech tagger. By using the output of the tagger, the lemmatizer can determine the correct root even for ambiguous word forms. The complete package is freely available and can be downloaded from the World Wide Web.
In this paper we present Morphy, an integrated tool for German morphology, part-ofspeech tagging and context-sensitive lemmatization. Its large lexicon of more than 320,000 word forms plus its ability to process German compound nouns guarantee a wide morphological coverage. Syntactic ambiguities can be resolved with a standard statistical part-of-speech tagger. By using the output of the tagger, the lemmatizer can determine the correct root even for ambiguous word forms. The complete package is freely available and can be downloaded from the World Wide Web.
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