Towards an Automatic Measurement of Verbal Lexicon Acquisition: The Case for a Young Children-versus-Adults Classification in French and Mandarin

Yann Desalle (1) , Shu Kai Hsieh (2) , Bruno Gaume (3, 1) , Hintat Cheung (2)

1 CLLE-ERSS - Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie
2 NTU - National Taiwan University [Taiwan]
3 IRIT-ADRIA - Argumentation, Décision, Raisonnement, Incertitude et Apprentissage

In this paper we define a lexical metrology in graphs of verbal synonymy to com-pute the flexsemic score of speakers from their verbal productions in action denominationtasks. This flexsemic score is used to automatically categorize young children versus youngadults. We show that this score is effective in French and in Mandarin.

Mots clés: automatic categorization; Flexsem; language acquisition; Prox

Domaines: Linguistique

Yann Desalle, Shu Kai Hsieh, Bruno Gaume, Hintat Cheung. Towards an Automatic Measurement of Verbal Lexicon Acquisition: The Case for a Young Children-versus-Adults Classification in French and Mandarin. PACLIC 24 : Workshop on Model and Measurement of Meaning (M3), 2010, Sendai, Japan. pp.809-818. ⟨hal-00992078⟩