Lexical Networks Constructed to Correspond to Students’ Short Written Responses: A Quantum Semantic Approach

A simple method to construct lexical networks (lexicons) of how students use scientific terms in written texts is introduced. The based on a recently introduced quantum semantics generalization word-pair co-occurrence. Quantum allows entangled co-occurrence, thus allowing model the effect subjective bias weighting importance word Using such generalized co-occurrence counting, we students’ lexicons (life-science) they their responses questions concerning food chains life-science contexts. us ensembles that probabilistically simulate variability individual lexicons. re-analyses reports show while sets top-ranking contain nearly same irrespective details used count co-occurrences, relative rankings some key-terms may be different semantic analysis.