A Computational Model of Children's Semantic Memory



For the moment, our model is an estimation. We cannot
precisely identify to which age it corresponds. Our goal is to
stratify it so that we would have a model for each age.
Developmental models would then be able to be simulated.

Acknowledgements

This work was done while the second author was in
sabbatical at the university of Aix-Marseille. We would like
to thank D. Chesnet, E. Lambert and M.-A. Schelstraete, for
providing us with parts of the corpus, F. de la Haye for the
association data as well as M. Bourguet and H. Thomas for
the design of the vocabulary test. We also thank P. Dessus
and E. de Vries for their comments on a previous version.

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