goss@ese.essex.ac.uk (Gossain Sanjiv) (02/23/90)
I'm not sure what newsgroup to post this message to but this one seems most relevant... I am looking for references on the subject of how people associate items with names. Or better still how humans conceptualize items' attributes from their names, or vice versa. Confused? well, so am I . I need to find papers on conceptualization of problem domains, _not_ domain analysis, but on how we deduce attributes of objects from their namesetc. Hope you understood this let alone have what I want? Sanjiv Gossain Essex University Colchester UK goss%essex.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
good@baviki.enet.dec.com (02/24/90)
There's been lots of work done on this topic. The research that I find most interesting, and that also seems relevant to your question, is the statistical semantics work done at Bellcore. One older reference is the article on "Statistical Semantics: Analysis of the Potential Performance of Key-word Information Systems" by George W. Furnas, Thomas K. Landauer, Louis M. Gomez, and Susan T. Dumais. It's published in the Bell Systems Technical Journal, Vol. 66, No. 6, Part 3, pp. 1753-1806, 1983. I know they have more recent articles, but I don't have references to them offhand. Do a search for articles by the 4 authors above and you should find some of that work. Michael Good Good@Baviki.Enet.Dec.Com