Finally, a comparison with existing English word association sets further highlights systematic improvements provided through these new norms. We also show that measures based on a mechanism of spreading activation derived from this new resource are highly predictive of direct judgments of similarity. We evaluate the utility of the dataset in several different contexts, including lexical decision and semantic categorization. Our procedure allowed subjects to provide multiple responses for each cue, which permits us to measure weak associations. We describe the collection of word associations for over 12,000 cue words, currently the largest such English-language resource in the world. In this work, we address both issues by introducing a new English word association dataset. Word associations have been used widely in psychology, but the validity of their application strongly depends on the number of cues included in the study and the extent to which they probe all associations known by an individual.
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