Lexical and affective models in early acquisition of semantics

Athanasia Kolovou, Elias Iosif, Alexandros Potamianos

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Abstract

Motivated by theories of early language development in children we investigate the contribution of affective features to early acquisition of lexical semantics. For the task of semantic similarity between words, semantic and affective spaces are modeled using network-based distributed semantic models. We propose a method for constructing semantic activations from a combination of lexical and affective relations and show that affective information plays a prominent role in our lexical development model.

Original languageEnglish
Pages40-45
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event6th International Workshop on Child Computer Interaction, WOCCI 2017 - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Duration: 13 Nov 2017 → …

Conference

Conference6th International Workshop on Child Computer Interaction, WOCCI 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityGlasgow
Period13/11/17 → …

Keywords

  • Distributional semantic models
  • Early lexical acquisition
  • Semantic-affective models

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