Language Encodes Geographical Information

Population counts and longitude and latitude coordinates were estimated for the 50 largest cities in the United States by computational linguistic techniques and by human participants. The mathematical technique Latent Semantic Analysis applied to newspaper texts produced similarity ratings between...

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Published in:Cognitive science 2009-01, Vol.33 (1), p.51-73
Main Authors: Louwerse, Max M., Zwaan, Rolf A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Biological and medical sciences
Cities
Computational Linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Encoding
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Geographic information systems
Geographical coordinates
Geography
Language
Language Thought Relationship
Latent semantic analysis
Linguistics
Mathematics
Miscellaneous
Multidimensional scaling
Population
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Semantic representations
Spatial cognition
United States of America
Word frequency
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