{"pk":30015,"title":"A Cross-linguistic Study into the Contribution of Affective Connotation in theLexico-semantic Representation of Concrete and Abstract Concepts","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Words carry affective connotations, but the role of these conno-tations in the representation of meaning is not well understood.Like other aspects of meaning, connotation might be cultureor language-specific. This study uses a large-scale relatednessjudgment task to determine the role of affective connotationsin concrete and abstract words in English, Rioplatense Span-ish, and Mandarin Chinese. Across languages, word valence,or how positive or negative a word is, was one of the main or-ganizing factors in both concrete and abstract concepts. More-over, predicted culture-specific affective connotations were re-liably found in the similarity space of abstract concepts. Afollow-up analysis was conducted to investigate whether distri-butional semantic representations derived from language simi-larly encodes these connotations using word embeddings. Thelanguage models did only partly captured the overall similaritystructure and the affective connotations shaping it.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"affective connotation; cross-cultural meaning; re-latedness; word embeddings"}],"section":"Poster Session 3","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10g4r578","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Simon","middle_name":"","last_name":"De Deyne","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Melbourne","department":""},{"first_name":"Álvaro","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cabana","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universidad de la República, Montevideo","department":""},{"first_name":"Bing","middle_name":"","last_name":"Li","name_suffix":"","institution":"NYU Shanghai","department":""},{"first_name":"Qing","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cai","name_suffix":"","institution":"NYU Shanghai","department":""},{"first_name":"Meredith","middle_name":"","last_name":"McKague","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Melbourne","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30015/galley/19869/download/"}]}