Towards an automatic measurement of verbal lexicon acquisition: the case for a young children-vs-adults categorization in French and Mandarin
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In this paper we define a lexical metrology in graphs of verbal synonymy to compute the flexsemic score of speakers from their verbal productions in action denomination tasks. This flexsemic score is used to automatically categorize young children versus young adults. We show that this score is effective in French and in Mandarin.
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