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-====== Task 1.b - Abstract/Concrete Nouns Discrimination ======
-==== Introduction ====
-The contrast between abstract and concrete words plays a central role in human cognition. Actually, behavioural and neuropsychological evidence suggests that abstract and concrete concepts might be represented, retrieved and processed differently in the human brain.
-Since semantic classifications of abstract nouns have a higher degree of arbitariness than the ones for concrete nouns, we have not defined any a priori "ontology" of classes for the abstract domain. Instead, we will test computational models for their ability to discriminate between abstract and concrete nouns.
-The {{concabst.dataset.tar.gz |data set}} consists of 40 nouns extracted from the [[http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/textinfo/1054.html|MRC Psycholinguistic Database]], with rates by human subjects on the concreteness scale.
-==== Task Operationalization ====
-The nouns have been classified into three classes, dependdng on their concreteness value in MRC:
-Back to [[Start]]