MRC Psycholinguistic Database is a dataset for English word concreteness, hosted on Hugging Face by StephanAkkerman. The dataset was last updated on 2024-09-29. It is made available under the MIT license.
Use Cases
- Train machine learning models for word concreteness prediction based on the psycholinguistic properties described.
- Evaluate NLP model performance on semantic tasks using established concreteness ratings.
- Conduct psycholinguistic research on the relationship between word properties and human cognition.
Strengths
- Dataset is described as the complete MRC psycholinguistic database, suggesting it is a standard reference.
- Explicitly licensed under the MIT license, which is permissive for reuse.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count, file formats, and sample data are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- https://websites.psychology.uwa.edu.au/school/mrcdatabase/uwa_mrc.htm
- Collection Method
- Likely a direct copy or export from the original online database.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2024-09-29 15:23:33; freshness should be verified.