Is more always better? Testing the addition bias for German language statistics
- This replication study aims to investigate a potential bias toward addition in the German language, building upon previous findings of Winter and colleagues who identified a similar bias in English. Our results confirm a bias in word frequencies and binomial expressions, aligning with these previous findings. However, the analysis of distributional semantics based on word vectors did not yield consistent results for German. Furthermore, our study emphasizes the crucial role of selecting appropriate translational equivalents, highlighting the significance of considering language-specific factors when testing for such biases for languages other than English.
| Author: | Sascha WolferORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-121158 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13339 |
| ISSN: | 1551-6709 |
| Parent Title (English): | Cognitive Science |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Place of publication: | Hoboken |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2023 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/09/14 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) [Zweitveröffentlichung] |
| Contributing Corporation: | Cognitive Science Society |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Publicationstate: | Postprint |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | addition; distributional semantics; emotional valence; latent semantic analysis; subtraction; subtraction neglect; word frequency |
| GND Keyword: | Bias; Deutsch; Kognitive Semantik; Semantische Analyse; Statistik; Worthäufigkeit |
| Volume: | 47 |
| Issue: | 9 |
| Page Number: | 13 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Psycholinguistik / Kognitive Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Semantik |
| Program areas: | L3: Lexik empirisch und digital |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |