We analyze the results of a semantic annotation task performed by novice taggers as part of the WordNet SemCor project (Landes et al., in press). Each polysemous content word in a text was matched to a sense from WordNet. Comparing the performance of the novice taggers with that of experienced lexicographers, we find that the degree of polysemy, part of speech, and the position within the WordN...

When people make causal judgments from contingency information, a principal aim is to account for occurrences of the outcome. When 2 causes are under consideration, the capacity of either to account for occurrences is judged from how likely the cause is to be present when the outcome occurs and from the rate at which the outcome occurs when that cause alone is present, which gives an estimate o...