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    "title": "Automatic Estimation of Lexical Concreteness in 77 Languages",
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    "abstract": "We estimate lexical Concreteness for millions of wordsacross 77 languages. Using a simple regression framework,we combine vector-based models of lexical semantics withexperimental norms of Concreteness in English and Dutch.By applying techniques to align vector-based semantics acrossdistinct languages, we compute and release Concreteness esti-mates at scale in numerous languages for which experimentalnorms are not currently available. This paper lays out thetechnique and its efficacy. Although this is a difficult datasetto evaluate immediately, Concreteness estimates computedfrom English correlate with Dutch experimental norms at ρ= .75 in the vocabulary at large, increasing to ρ = .8 amongNouns. Our predictions also recapitulate attested relationshipswith word frequency. The approach we describe can be readilyapplied to numerous lexical measures beyond Concreteness.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "word2vec"
        },
        {
            "word": "Concreteness; multilingual; skipgram; norms"
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    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dz7k3k1",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Bill",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Thompson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Gary",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lupyan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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