{"pk":25619,"title":"Time after Time in Words: Chronology through Language Statistics","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Previous research has shown that perceptual relations, social\naffiliations, and geographical locations can be predicted using\ndistributional semantics. We investigated whether this extends\nto chronological relations. In several computational studies\nwe demonstrated that the chronological order of days,\nmonths, years, and the chronological sequence of historical\nfigures can be predicted using language statistics. In fact, both\nthe leaders of the Soviet Union and the presidents of the\nUnited States can be ordered chronologically based on the cooccurrences\nof their names in language. An experiment also\nshowed that the bigram frequency of US president names\npredicted the response time of participants in their evaluation\nof the chronology of these presidents. These findings are\nexplained by the Symbol Interdependency Hypothesis which\npredicts that as a function of language use, language encodes\nrelations in the world around us. Language users can then use\nlanguage as a cognitive short-cut for mental representations","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"chronology; language statistics; distributional\nsemantics; embodied cognition; symbol interdependency"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9q53z0md","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Max","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Louwerse","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Susanne","middle_name":"","last_name":"Raisig","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Rick","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tillman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Sterling","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hutchinson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25619/galley/15243/download/"}]}