Chris Westbury
Biographic Data
| ID | 1691901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Westbury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Westbury |
| SIGNATURE | WESTBURY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7788-0278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The principal components of meaning, revisited
Is theology more of a field than a father is a king? Modelling semantic relatedness in processing literal and metaphorical statements
One major question in the study of metaphors historically is: Are different mechanisms involved in the comprehension of figurative statements versus literal statements? Many studies have addressed this question from a variety of perspectives, with mixed results. Following Harati, Westbury, and Kiaee ( Behavior Research Methods , 53, 2214-2225, 2021), we use a computational (word embedding) model of semantics to approach the question in a way that…
The Persian Lexicon Project
Sound symbolism shapes the English language
Prenominal adjective order is such a fat big deal because adjectives are ordered by likely need
You Can't Drink a Word
Expanding the Scope of Selective Exposure
The literature on selective exposure has made inestimable advances in our understanding of media and its effect on politics and the general public. However, much of the research on this topic has relied on potentially inaccurate assumptions. In our paper we apply an open-source, publicly available, high-dimensional measurement of meaning through word co-occurrence context (Shaoul & Westbury, 2010), which has historically been applied to questions…
Processing Advantages of Lexical Bundles
This article examines the extent to which lexical bundles (LBs; i.e., frequently recurring strings of words that often span traditional syntactic boundaries) are stored and processed holistically. Three self-paced reading experiments compared sentences containing LBs (e.g.,in the middle of the) and matched control sentence fragments (e.g.,in the front of the). LBs and sentences containing LBs were read faster than the control sentence fragments i…
Bayes' Rule for Clinicians
Bayes' Rule is a way of calculating conditional probabilities. It is difficult to find an explanation of its relevance that is both mathematically comprehensive and easily accessible to all readers. This article tries to fill that void, by laying out the nature of Bayes' Rule and its implications for clinicians in a way that assumes little or no background in probability theory. It builds on Meehl & Rosen's (1955) classic paper, by laying out alg…
Processing Advantages of Lexical Bundles
This article examines the extent to which lexical bundles (LBs; i.e., frequently recurring strings of words that often span traditional syntactic boundaries) are stored and processed holistically. Three self-paced reading experiments compared sentences containing LBs (e.g.,in the middle of the) and matched control sentence fragments (e.g.,in the front of the). LBs and sentences containing LBs were read faster than the control sentence fragments i…
You Can't Drink a Word
Expanding the Scope of Selective Exposure
The literature on selective exposure has made inestimable advances in our understanding of media and its effect on politics and the general public. However, much of the research on this topic has relied on potentially inaccurate assumptions. In our paper we apply an open-source, publicly available, high-dimensional measurement of meaning through word co-occurrence context (Shaoul & Westbury, 2010), which has historically been applied to questions…
Bayes' Rule for Clinicians
Bayes' Rule is a way of calculating conditional probabilities. It is difficult to find an explanation of its relevance that is both mathematically comprehensive and easily accessible to all readers. This article tries to fill that void, by laying out the nature of Bayes' Rule and its implications for clinicians in a way that assumes little or no background in probability theory. It builds on Meehl & Rosen's (1955) classic paper, by laying out alg…
Processing Advantages of Lexical Bundles
This article examines the extent to which lexical bundles (LBs; i.e., frequently recurring strings of words that often span traditional syntactic boundaries) are stored and processed holistically. Three self-paced reading experiments compared sentences containing LBs (e.g.,in the middle of the) and matched control sentence fragments (e.g.,in the front of the). LBs and sentences containing LBs were read faster than the control sentence fragments i…
Expanding the Scope of Selective Exposure
The literature on selective exposure has made inestimable advances in our understanding of media and its effect on politics and the general public. However, much of the research on this topic has relied on potentially inaccurate assumptions. In our paper we apply an open-source, publicly available, high-dimensional measurement of meaning through word co-occurrence context (Shaoul & Westbury, 2010), which has historically been applied to questions…
You Can't Drink a Word
Sound symbolism shapes the English language
Prenominal adjective order is such a fat big deal because adjectives are ordered by likely need
Is theology more of a field than a father is a king? Modelling semantic relatedness in processing literal and metaphorical statements
One major question in the study of metaphors historically is: Are different mechanisms involved in the comprehension of figurative statements versus literal statements? Many studies have addressed this question from a variety of perspectives, with mixed results. Following Harati, Westbury, and Kiaee ( Behavior Research Methods , 53, 2214-2225, 2021), we use a computational (word embedding) model of semantics to approach the question in a way that…
The Persian Lexicon Project
The principal components of meaning, revisited
Psychology (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Natural language processing (4 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)