This paper outlines a psychologically constrained theory of sentence comprehension The most prominent features of the theory are that: (1) syntactic structure is discarded clause by clause (where the traditional notion of clause is modified in certain r e s p e c t s so as to conform t o short term memory requirements); (2) the syntactic and semantic processor work in parallel. The semantic ana...

We present a system for resolving both semantic relatedness (SR) and textual entailment (TE) tasks. There are two major contributions the method proposed here brings to the field:(1) it shows that there is a correlation between the SR scores and TE judgments which can be used to improve the accuracy of both of these tasks and (2) it shows that we can handle the structural information via patter...

OBJECTIVE This study measures diabetes care perceptions of patients and their providers, and examines perceptions differences of patient-provider pairs. METHODS Patient and provider perceptions were assessed using the Diabetes Semantic Differential Scales (DSDS) which ask respondents to rate diabetes care concepts using contrasting adjective pairs. The DSDS was scored by two methods: using me...

We have developed a new effective probabilistic classifier for document classification by introducing the concept of differential document vectors and DLSI (differential latent semantic indexing) spaces. A combined use of the projections on and the distances to the DLSI spaces introduced from the differential document vectors improves the adaptability of the LSI (latent semantic indexing) metho...

One important aspect of the nurse-patient relationship is nurses' attitudes towards their patients. Nurses' attitudes towards people with dementia have been studied from a wide range of approaches, but few authors have focused on the structure of these attitudes. This study aimed to identify a structure in licensed practical nurses' attitudes towards people with dementia. Twenty-one group dwell...

OBJECTIVES This article examines how mentally ill people are perceived by psychology students. It was inspired by a study on stereotypical perception of mentally ill people carried out 10 years ago, which was published in Polish Psychiatry (2000). METHODS A modified version of the semantic differential, which was used 10 years ago, was applied. The version consisted of: subject selection of 3...

We integrate two prominent models of social perception dimensionality. In three studies we demonstrate how the well-established Semantic Differential (Osgood et al., 1957) dimensions, evaluation and potency, relate to the Stereotype Content Model (Fiske et al., 2002) dimensions, warmth and competence. Specifically, using a correlational design (Study 1) and experimental designs (Studies 2 & 3),...

We conducted a reliability-generalization meta-analysis of 7 of the most frequently used measures of relationship satisfaction: the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test (LWMAT), the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (KMS), the Quality of Marriage Index, the Relationship Assessment Scale, the Marital Opinion Questionnaire, Karney and Bradbury's (1997) semantic differential scale, and the Couple...

Kerrick (1956) found no relationship between anxiety as measured by the Taylor Manifest Anxiety scale (Taylor, 19S3) and discrimination among concepts on the semantic differential (Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957). He found a positive relationship between intelligence and discrimination. On the other hand, Ware (as reported by Osgood, 1962) and Brod, Kernoff, and Terwilliger (1964) found no re...

Specifying the relationship between the sensations perceived by material surfaces and the tactile stimuli presented to human finger pad is often difficult in tactile texture studies. Both human texture perception and the physical stimuli presented to the skin are expressed as multidimensional information spaces. We developed a computational technique for matching these texture and physical stim...