no code implementations • 2 Oct 2022 • Massimo Stella, Salvatore Citraro, Giulio Rossetti, Daniele Marinazzo, Yoed N. Kenett, Michael S. Vitevitch
Cognitive multilayer networks can map multiple types of information at once, thus capturing how different layers of associations might co-exist within the mental lexicon and influence cognitive processing.
no code implementations • 13 Jan 2022 • Salvatore Citraro, Michael S. Vitevitch, Massimo Stella, Giulio Rossetti
Modelling words as vectors is key to natural language processing, whereas networks of word associations can map the nature of semantic memory.
no code implementations • 29 Mar 2021 • Massimo Stella, Michael S. Vitevitch, Federico Botta
Semantic associations with "vaccine," "hoax" and conspiratorial jargon indicated the persistence of conspiracy theories and vaccines in massively read English posts (absent in Italian messages).
no code implementations • 30 Dec 2017 • Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Michael S. Vitevitch
In his pioneering research, G. K. Zipf observed that more frequent words tend to have more meanings, and showed that the number of meanings of a word grows as the square root of its frequency.