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Table 11 Some word sets and category labels with lax condition on Battig set for ICA with 100 components and a vocabulary of 200 000 words

From: Exploratory analysis of semantic categories: comparing data-driven and human similarity judgments

Score

0.92066

0.8262

0.8179

0.7951

0.72163

Category

Chemical element

Color

Type of music

Girl’s first name

Vehicle

 

liquid

colored

reggae

louise

v8

 

nitrogen

coloured

rap

louisa

engined

 

sulfur

yellow

pop

frances

turbocharged

 

sodium

stripe

hip-hop

margaret

v6

 

hydrogen

translucent

jazz

katherine

diesel

 

compounds

blue

disco

elisabeth

four-cylinder

 

carbon

pale

motown

anne

engine

 

organic

metallic

rock

josephine

sedan

 

chlorine

pink

punk

elizabeth

v12

 

ammonia

red

solo

christina

turbo

 

acid

striped

blues

sophie

high-performance

 

gaseous

reddish

rockabilly

agnes

air-cooled

 

magnesium

hair

funk

catherine

bmw

 

oxide

purple

bluegrass

anna

litre

 

toxic

glossy

indie

mary

gt

Score

0.66905

0.62344

0.6083

0.59476

0.58315

Category

Part of speech

Relative

Elective office

Science

Unit of distance

 

sanskrit

ancestors

increasingly

undergraduate

ex-pg

 

literally

courtiers

obsessed

graduate

ddg

 

hebrew

forebears

reacquainted

postgraduate

cve

 

colloquial

lineage

addicted

nursing

apd

 

aramaic

servant

enamored

vocational

unterseeboot

 

adonai

forefathers

infatuated

post-graduate

aog

 

derogatory

members

entangled

education

op

 

slang

progeny

enmeshed

medical

pf

 

gnosis

grandfathers

embroiled

university’s

pgm

 

archaic

piety

acquainted

engineering

year-old

 

arabic

mutant

disillusioned

humanities

hp

 

elohim

sole

romantically

courses

seibel

 

bushi

ancestral

enamoured

academic

percent

 

dharma

heirs

extratropical

college

kg

 

euphemistic

husbands

disenchanted

interdisciplinary

yfd

Score

0.47718

0.41936

0.36343

0.30244

0.23024

Category

Science

Reading material

Reading material

Science

Unit of time

 

perspective

tolkien

philosophical

mathematical

country’s

 

considerations

kant

satirical

geometric

japan’s

 

aspects

eliade

biographical

algebraic

germany’s

 

concepts

jokingly

scholarly

geometrical

china’s

 

purely

plutarch

biblical

logical

france’s

 

problems

rowling

prose

analytic

india’s

 

contexts

nietzsche

autobiographical

linguistic

russia’s

 

attitudes

asimov

literary

computational

pakistan’s

 

topics

allmusic

unpublished

empirical

egypt’s

 

studies

wittgenstein

historical

evolutionary

poland’s

 

theories

aristotle

humorous

fundamental

israel’s

 

phenomena

freud

modernist

combinatorial

team’s

 

themes

herodotus

english-language

qualitative

korea’s

 

perspectives

maimonides

poetic

theoretical

ireland’s

 

standpoint

strabo

contemporary

quantitative

nation’s