Pajek datasets

FreeAssoc
The University of South Florida word association, rhyme, and word fragment norms

Dataset   FreeAssoc

Description

PairsP.net directed network with 10617 vertices and 72168 arcs (4 loops); cue X is associated with target Y N times.
PairsFSG.net directed network with 10617 vertices and 72168 arcs (4 loops); the strength of assocition (FSG) of cue X to target Y is Z.
cue.clu cue word partition: 1 - a cue word; 0 - not a cue word.
pofs.clu part of speech partition: 0 - undefined; 1 - N - noun; 2 - V - Verb; 3 - AJ - Adjective; 4 - AD - Adverb; 5 - P - Pronoun; 6 - PP - Preposition; 7 - I - Interjection; 8 - C - Conjunction.

Both derived networks are multi-relational: relation 1 - target normed; relation 2 - target not normed.

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USF Free Association Norms (ZIP, 764K)

Background

More than 6,000 participants produced nearly three-quarters of a million responses to 5,019 stimulus words. Participants were asked to write the first word that came to mind that was meaningfully related or strongly associated to the presented word on the blank shown next to each item. For example, if given BOOK _________, they might write READ on the blank next to it. This procedure is called a discrete association task because each participant is asked to produce only a single associate to each word.

For additinal details see the original Introduction and the Description of the data.

USF Free Association Norms into Pajek format

To transform the USF Free Association Norms into Pajek format we glued the partial files from Appendix A back into a single file. Then using a simple program in Python we obtained some files in Pajek Format. Since the coding of the parts of speech in the original data is not consistent the partition pofs.clu still needs some checking. Here is a list of inconsistencies in labelings. We deleted the inconsistency pairs (AJ - ADJ). The label A in pofs.clu was assigned the code 9.

USF Free Association Norms - simple islands

Simple FSG islands

History

1. Original FA (1998): Nelson, D.L., McEvoy, C.L., & Schreiber, T.A. (collection started in 1973).
2. transformed in Pajek format: V. Batagelj, 24. February 2007.

References

1. Nelson, D.L., McEvoy, C.L., & Schreiber, T.A.: The University of South Florida Word Association, Rhyme and Word Fragment Norms
2. The Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus
3. WordNet
4. MRC Psycholinguistic Database
5. See also Pajek data: EAT and WordNet