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Latest papers
When languages favour complex words.
Nature human behaviour · 2026 · first author
A comparison of homonym meaning frequency estimates derived from movie and television subtitles, free association, and explicit ratings.
Behavior research methods · 2019
Latest funding
- $12,500
Computational models of word meaning in use
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $161,000
Computational models of word meaning in use
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
2 publications.
When languages favour complex words.
Beekhuizen B
A comparison of homonym meaning frequency estimates derived from movie and television subtitles, free association, and explicit ratings.
Rice CA, Beekhuizen B, Dubrovsky V, Stevenson S, Armstrong BC
Computational models of word meaning in use
Principal investigators: Beekhuizen, Barend
Computational models of word meaning in use
Principal investigators: Beekhuizen, Barend
Keywords: computational semantics; lexical ambiguity; compositionality; linguistic typology; computational linguistics; computational cognitive science
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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