{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/simple-search-algorithms-on-semantic-networks","title":"Simple Search Algorithms on Semantic Networks Learned from Language Use","arxiv_id":"1602.03265","date":"2016-02-10","proceeding":null,"authors":["Aida Nematzadeh","Filip Miscevic","Suzanne Stevenson"],"abstract":"Recent empirical and modeling research has focused on the semantic fluency\ntask because it is informative about semantic memory. An interesting interplay\narises between the richness of representations in semantic memory and the\ncomplexity of algorithms required to process it. It has remained an open\nquestion whether representations of words and their relations learned from\nlanguage use can enable a simple search algorithm to mimic the observed\nbehavior in the fluency task. Here we show that it is plausible to learn rich\nrepresentations from naturalistic data for which a very simple search algorithm\n(a random walk) can replicate the human patterns. We suggest that explicitly\nstructuring knowledge about words into a semantic network plays a crucial role\nin modeling human behavior in memory search and retrieval; moreover, this is\nthe case across a range of semantic information sources.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03265v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.03265v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"simple-search-algorithms-on-semantic-networks","repo_url":"https://github.com/FilipMiscevic/random_walk","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"open-question","task_name":"Open-Ended Question Answering"},{"task_slug":"retrieval","task_name":"Retrieval"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}