Papers by Maria Angelica Riera Machin
Beyond Film Subtitles: Is YouTube the Best Approximation of Spoken Vocabulary? (2025.coling-main)
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Adam Nohejl, Frederikus Hudi, Eunike Andriani Kardinata, Shintaro Ozaki, Maria Angelica Riera Machin, Hongyu Sun, Justin Vasselli, Taro Watanabe
| Challenge: | Word frequency is a key variable in psycholinguistics, useful for modeling human familiarity with words . a recent study shows that frequency from YouTube subtitles is comparable to and often better than the best available resources. |
| Approach: | They use YouTube subtitles to construct frequency norms for five languages . they find they are comparable to and often better than the best currently available resources . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on the best currently available resources for Chinese, English, Indonesian, Japanese, and Spanish. |