Katja’s page of current projects

Abstract concept projects

· concept organization

· mechanisms of judging abstract concepts’ similarity

· a theory of abstractness (what makes a concept more or less abstract?)

· cross-linguistic analyses

· Classifications of abstract concepts

· Contextual priming of abstract concepts

· Lexical co-occurrence patterns for abstract concepts

· Using neural networks to identify relevant context information

Other projects

· Meaning representation in LSA

· Using LSA in reading strategy training

· Detecting incorrect presuppositions in questionnaires and surveys