Automatic extraction of property norm-like features from large text corpora with gold standard , human and semantic-similarity evaluations

Property norms (e.g., banana is yellow, aeroplane has wings) play a key role in cognitive science, forming the basis for many recent theoretical accounts of conceptual representations (e.g., Cree et al., 2006; Grondin et al., 2009; Randall et al., 2004). Such norms are typically derived from norming studies where a large number of human participants elicit properties for a set of concepts (e.g., McRae et al., 2005).