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caeli  ·  3461 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Scientists of hubski, what science do you science?

Psycholinguistics! I study how people process, produce, and acquire language. I use a mix of behavioral and computational methods.

Specifically right now I'm investigating to what extent people activate unigram representations within bigrams of varying pairwise mutual information.

Edit: stupid phone doesn't realize that unigram and bigram are words and corrected them to weird things.





I_work_alone  ·  3461 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wernicke's Broca is strong in this one. ;)

Pieareround  ·  3461 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you think you could explain simply what unigrams and bigrams are?

caeli  ·  3461 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes! They're just unnecessarily jargon-y terms for "one word" and "two words". Linguistics has a serious terminology problem :p

Pieareround  ·  3460 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, that makes sense.