Are vector-based approaches a feasible solution to the "tip-of-the-tongue" problem?

• Autores: Michael Zock, Tonio Wandmacher, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova
• Localización: E-lexicography in the 21st century: New challenges, new applications : proceedings of eLex 2009, Louvain-la Neuve, 22-24 october 2009 / Sylviane Granger (ed. lit.), Magali Paquot (ed. lit.), 2010, ISBN 978-2-87463-211-2, págs. 355-365
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Our goal is to help people find the word they are looking for when producing language (writing, speaking), a communication-mode often neglected by dictionary builders. Word finding problems manifest themselves in various forms via delays and quality of output, ranging from incorrect production (wrong term), to aborted productions (tip-of-the-tongue problem) or complete silence. Obviously, failures can be relative, and they may have various causes: ignorance, lack of usage or low frequency of the target word, semantic or phonological similarities. i.e. interference, etc.

    We will be concellled here only with the "tip-of-the-tongue" problem, a state characterized by the fact that an author fails to produce a word even though sthe knows it. The word has been memorized, but is momentarily inaccessible. While one can think of various strategies or tools to help authors to overcome this state, we will consider here only one of them, LSA (Latent Semantic Analysis), to see how well it is suited to achieve our goal.