Pirmieji žingsniai kuriant lietuviškų žodžių asociacijų duomenų bazę
First steps towards the Lithuanian word association database

Summary/Abstract: This paper introduces the first version of the Lithuanian database of free association norms available online on Zenodo (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3451880). This is an attempt to provide an open access resource that would be helpful for psycholinguists, linguists, computational linguists, and students. This first version of the database includes 277 cue word forms: nouns, verbs,and some adjectives. The responses were collected from 304 participants. In total,15,612 association pairs are recorded. Word associations for this database were collected using a simple free association experiment technique: the participants were given cue words and asked to write down the first word that came to their minds. The data were collected in two stages: 64 participants took a paper and pencil test, while the others(n = 240) completed a survey online. The responses were cleaned for mistakes, longer comments, and non-Lithuanian spelling, but they were not lemmatized and are presented in their original form in the database. The data available to download includes tables of Participants, Cues, and Responses needed to use the database in the SQL format, as well as a summary spreadsheet for easier use for researchers not familiar with databases. The Appendix of the paper provides a summary of the main association pairs in the database together with some descriptive statistics.This is a first step towards a more comprehensive association norms database for the Lithuanian language. In the future, this database will be enlarged with more responses and more cue words. Any collaborations from researchers who are willing to share their data are very welcome.

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