The MRC Psycholinguistic Database

1981 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Coltheart

This paper describes a computerised database of psycholinguistic information. Semantic, syntactic, phonological and orthographic information about some or all of the 98,538 words in the database is accessible, by using a specially-written and very simple programming language. Word-association data are also included in the database. Some examples are given of the use of the database for selection of stimuli to be used in psycholinguistic experimentation or linguistic research.

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-237
Author(s):  
Fathorazi Nur Fajri ◽  
Wali Ja’far Shudiq ◽  
Nurul Hidayattun Nasyihin

New Santri Admission (Penerimaan Santri Baru) is an administrative process for the selection of new student candidates. The PSB process is always carried out manually at each school institution, especially the Islamic Boarding Schools, which will cause various difficulties from several related parties. Therefore the New Santri Admission System was created online or the term can be called the online PSB. . An idea emerged to create a new student admission information system based on the SQL database. With this system, pesantren or administrators can manage the implementation of student registration for web technology using the PHP programming language and new languages. such as rapid registration and announcements.


2013 ◽  
Vol 465-466 ◽  
pp. 387-394
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ashraf Fauri Fauzi ◽  
Daeng Ahmad Zuhri Zuhud ◽  
Hafiz Husin

Digital computers that automate manufacturing process are an important aspect for any manufacturing engineers in the modern world. Selection of the programming paradigm (PP), as well as the programming language (PL) that supports it, is crucial to ensure the correct ideas are being used to automate the solution of the problem. In current Malaysian Higher institution practices, various PPs and PLs courses are offered to current undergraduate manufacturing majors. An online survey was deployed to experienced manufacturing engineers from various manufacturing specializations in the industry. Graduates from one of Malaysias public universities, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) have been chosen for this particular study. From the survey, it has been found that almost 80% of the participants agreed that PPs are important for manufacturing graduates. It was found out that 90% of the participants were from intermediate (scale of 3) until poor (scale of 1) to express their ability to explain PPs if asked. Only about 10% are able to explain on PPs (scale of 4 and 5). The study concluded that majority of the manufacturing graduates from IIUM agreed that PP is an important subject to be taught in university. However, it was found the majority of the manufacturing graduates lack the knowledge and understanding of PPs and general PLs.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fajr Alarsan ◽  
Mamoon Younes

Abstract Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are most popular generative frameworks that have achieved compelling performance. They follow an adversarial approach where two deep models generator and discriminator compete with each other In this paper, we propose a Generative Adversarial Network with best hyper-parameters selection to generate fake images for digits number 1 to 9 with generator and train discriminator to decide whereas the generated images are fake or true. Using Genetic Algorithm technique to adapt GAN hyper-parameters, the final method is named GANGA:Generative Adversarial Network with Genetic Algorithm. Anaconda environment with tensorflow library facilitates was used, python as programming language also used with needed libraries. The implementation was done using MNIST dataset to validate our work. The proposed method is to let Genetic algorithm to choose best values of hyper-parameters depending on minimizing a cost function such as a loss function or maximizing accuracy function. GA was used to select values of Learning rate, Batch normalization, Number of neurons and a parameter of Dropout layer.


2013 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 279-284
Author(s):  
Stanisław Kachel

The paper presents the methodological approach to development of curves by selection of driving parameters with the application of the method to designing and reproduction of aircraft surfaces on the examples of both newly designed aircrafts and the ones that are already in service. The major assumptions are outlined that are necessary to develop the mathematical model of driving curves and surfaces, these assumptions served as the basis to draw up the relevant algorithms and to convert them to routines of the GRIP (Graphics Interactive Programming) language that is a part of the CAD/CAM/CAE Unigraphics system. These algorithms include the newly developed tool dedicated to design aircraft components and provided with inputs to the multi-criteria synthesis of the aerodynamic profiles of aircrafts. The study comprises also the assumptions to the newly developed algorithms dedicated to modelling of components incorporated into aircraft structures, these algorithms have been successfully implemented by the author.


Africa ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. Arnott

Opening ParagraphThe wit and wisdom of the Fulani, as of other African peoples, are expressed most characteristically in their proverbs and riddles. Their proverbs are amply illustrated by the collections of H. Gaden and C. E. J. Whitting, and a selection of riddles appeared in a recent article in Africa by M. Dupire and the Marquis de Tressan. But there are other types of oral literature—both light and serious—which various writers have mentioned, without quoting examples. So Mlle Dupire refers to formes litteraires alambiquées and ritournelles des enfants bororo, and G. Pfeffer, in his article on ‘Prose and Poetry of the Fulbe,’ speaks of jokes and tongue-twisters. The aim of this article is to present some examples of these types of proverbial lore and word-play—epigrams, tongue-twisters, and chain-rhymes—which were recorded, along with many more riddles and proverbs, in the course of linguistic research during a recent tour of the Fula-speaking areas of West Africa, and to consider their relation to proverbs and riddles. These types of oral literature are of course by no means peculiar to the Fulani, and a number of the examples here quoted may well have parallels in other languages of West Africa or farther afield. But an examination of such pieces in one language may perhaps contribute something to the general study of this kind of lore.


1971 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Balch ◽  
S. I. Shapiro

A bibliography is provided of studies of paired-associate learning as a function of word-association strength inferred from normative collections of word-association data. Over 60 such studies have been published during the past decade.


ExELL ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-101
Author(s):  
Maja Séguin

AbstractVocabulary acquisition is a dynamic process and there is a constant change in the way words are stored in the mental lexicon. Word association tests are used in linguistic research to observe to which extent mental mapping can be understood. This paper presents the results of a word association game consisting of seven words administered to second language speakers, and native speakers for comparative purposes. The results indicate the possibility of a link between experiences and associations, which leads to the recommendation for teachers to create activities and new experiences that demand the learner’s personal involvement in expanding their vocabulary.


2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-90
Author(s):  
Nan Jiang ◽  
Jianqin Zhang

Two lines of evidence emerged in the past suggesting that lexical form seemed to play a more important role in the organization of the second language (L2) mental lexicon than in that of the first language (L1) lexicon. They were masked orthographic priming in L2 word recognition and an elevated proportion of form-related responses in L2 word association. However, findings from previous word association studies were inconsistent regarding (1) how often L2 speakers produced form-related responses ( flood–blood) and (2) whether L2 speakers were more likely than L1 speakers to provide such responses. Attributing this inconsistency to two methodological causes, the classification of form-related responses and the selection of stimuli, the present study adopted an improved approach by quantifying the definition of form-related responses and by selecting stimuli that had both strong semantic associates and orthographically similar words as potential responses. The latter improvement helped remove the bias for producing either meaning-based or form-based responses. A group of 30 English native speakers and two groups of 65 non-native speakers were tested on the same set of stimuli of 74 English words. Three findings were obtained: (1) non-native speakers produced significantly more form-related responses than native speakers, (2) the two non-native speaker group who differed in L2 experiences showed comparable results, and (3) the participants’ familiarity with the stimuli and the lexical frequency of the stimuli negatively correlated with the proportion of form-related responses among non-native speakers. These results provided more compelling evidence for form prominence in the L2 lexicon.


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