LexFindR: A fast, simple, and extensible R package for finding similar words in a lexicon
Published 30 September 2021
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| Publication date: | 2022 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad del País Vasco |
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| Keyword: | Psycholinguistics Lexicon Word recognition |
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| author | Li, ZhaoBin |
| author2 | Crinnion, Anne Marie Magnuson, James S. |
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| author_browse | Crinnion, Anne Marie Li, ZhaoBin Magnuson, James S. |
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| spelling | LexFindR: A fast, simple, and extensible R package for finding similar words in a lexicon Li, ZhaoBin Crinnion, Anne Marie Magnuson, James S. Psycholinguistics Lexicon Word recognition Published 30 September 2021 Language scientists often need to generate lists of related words, such as potential competitors. Theymay do this for purposes of experimental control (e.g., selecting items matched on lexical neighborhood but varying in word frequency), or to test theoretical predictions (e.g., hypothesizing that a novel type of competitor may impact word recognition). Several online tools are available, but most are constrained to a fixed lexicon and fixed sets of competitor definitions, and may not give the user full access to or control of source data. We present LexFindR, an open-source R package that can be easily modified to include additional, novel competitor types. LexFindR is easy to use. Because it can leverage multiple CPU cores and uses vectorized code when possible, it is also extremely fast. In this article, we present an overview of LexFindR usage, illustrated with examples.We also explain the details of how we implemented several standard lexical competitor types used in spoken word recognition research (e.g., cohorts, neighbors, embeddings, rhymes), and show how “lexical dimensions” (e.g., word frequency, word length, uniqueness point) can be integrated into LexFindR workflows (for example, to calculate “frequency-weighted competitor probabilities”), for both spoken and visual word recognition research. This work was supported in part by U.S. National Science Foundation grants PAC 1754284 (JM, PI) and IGE NRT 1747486 (JM, PI). The authors are solely responsible for the content of this article. This work was also supported in part by the Basque Government through the BERC 2018-2021 program, and by the Agencia Estatal de Investigaci´on through BCBL Severo Ochoa excellence accreditation SEV-2015-0490. SPRINGER http://hdl.handle.net/10810/58617 |
| spellingShingle | LexFindR: A fast, simple, and extensible R package for finding similar words in a lexicon Li, ZhaoBin Psycholinguistics Lexicon Word recognition |
| title | LexFindR: A fast, simple, and extensible R package for finding similar words in a lexicon |
| title_full | LexFindR: A fast, simple, and extensible R package for finding similar words in a lexicon |
| title_fullStr | LexFindR: A fast, simple, and extensible R package for finding similar words in a lexicon |
| title_full_unstemmed | LexFindR: A fast, simple, and extensible R package for finding similar words in a lexicon |
| title_short | LexFindR: A fast, simple, and extensible R package for finding similar words in a lexicon |
| title_sort | LexFindR: A fast, simple, and extensible R package for finding similar words in a lexicon |
| topic | Psycholinguistics Lexicon Word recognition |
| topic_facet | Psycholinguistics Lexicon Word recognition |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/58617 |