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A Computational Model of Korean Mental Lexicon

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005 (ICCSA 2005)

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This paper proposes a computational model of Korean mental lexicon which can explain very basic findings that are observed using the visual Korean lexical decision task. The model is Frequency-based trie which is based on the trie data structure. Alphabets in each node of the Frequency-based trie is sorted in descending order by by their frequency in the corpus. It is the main idea which enables the model to simulate the Korean mental lexicon. There will be evaluations and comparison results with human data: how well the model simulates Korean word processing and how much the simulated results coincide with that of human processing. We also discuss both the strength and weakness of the computational model.

This Work was Supported by the Korea Ministry of Science & Technology (M10413000008-04N1300-00811), Corresponding Author : Kichun Nam {kichun@korea.ac.kr}.

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  1. Dept. of Software, Hanshin University, Korea

    Heui Seok Lim

  2. Dept. of Psychology, Korea University, Korea

    Kichun Nam & Yumi Hwang

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W, T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

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  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

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  4. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, P.O. Box, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

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  5. Institute of High Performance Computing, IHCP, 1 Science Park Road, 01-01 The Capricorn, Singapore Science Park II, 117528, Singapore

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  6. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

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Lim, H.S., Nam, K., Hwang, Y. (2005). A Computational Model of Korean Mental Lexicon. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005. ICCSA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3480. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11424758_118

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