Title :
Research into the Markov property in mental lexicon of Chinese English learners based on spreading activation model
Author :
Wang, Huili ; Hou, Yan
Author_Institution :
Foreign Language Sch., Dalian Univ. of Technol. (DUT), Dalian, China
Abstract :
The study conducted word association test to 150 sophomores in Dalian University of Technology; and attempted to find out whether Markov property exists in the mental lexicon representation of Chinese English learners and use Markov property to unveil the working mechanism of mental lexicon network.
Keywords :
Markov processes; computational linguistics; word processing; Chinese english learners; Dalian technological university; Markov property; mental lexicon representation; spreading activation model; word association test; Markov processes; Mechanical factors; Nickel; Organizations; Presses; Semantics; Vocabulary; Markov property; Word association test; mental lexicon representation;
Conference_Titel :
Natural Computation (ICNC), 2010 Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Yantai, Shandong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5958-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICNC.2010.5584260