creators_name: Denhière, Guy
creators_name: Lemaire, Benoît
editors_name: Forbus, Kenneth
editors_name: Gentner, Dedre
editors_name: Regier, Terry
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2004-08-25
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:40
metadata_visibility: show
title: A Computational Model of Children's Semantic Memory
ispublished: pub
subjects: dev-psy
subjects: ling-sem
subjects: cog-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: LSA,Latent Semantic Analysis,semantic memory,children
abstract: A computational model of children's semantic memory is built from the Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) of a multisource child corpus. Three tests of the model are described, simulating a vocabulary test, an association test and a recall task. For each one, results from experiments with children are presented and compared to the model data. Adequacy is correct, which means that this simulation of children's semantic memory can be used to simulate a variety of children's cognitive processes.
date: 2004
date_type: published
publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
pagerange: 297-302
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Denhière, Guy and Lemaire, Benoît  (2004) A Computational Model of Children's Semantic Memory.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/3777/1/cogsci04_1.pdf