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The Dictionary Game: Toward a Characterization of Lexical Primitives Using Graph Theory and Relational Concept Analysis

Authors:
Mickaël Wajnberg
Jean-Marie Poulin
Alexandre Blondin Massé
Petko Valtchev

Keywords: Dictionary; Relational concept analysis; Cicularity; Association rule; Serious game.

Abstract:
In language theory and cognition, the search for a minimal set of language primitives from which every other concept could be defined is an ever-recurring topic. In order to help identify such primitives, a serious game was designed, where the player has to produce a meaningful lexicon as small as possible, starting by defining a single word and, recursively, all those appearing in any definition. Using simple graph theory and relational concept analysis (RCA), we extracted association rules from feature tables while putting in common the newly discovered abstractions into the overall knowledge data discovery process. The utility of the mined rules has been validated by the success in linking the dictionaries structural attributes to the psycholinguistics characteristics of the words they contain.

Pages: 84 to 89

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: April 26, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4197

ISBN: 978-1-61208-780-1

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 25, 2020 to October 29, 2020