Devorah E. Klein
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
4 Papers
6 Citations
Devorah E. Klein is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Polysemy & Participatory design. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications.
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The Representation of Polysemous Words
TL;DR: This article investigated whether different senses are represented distinctly in the lexicon or if there is a common, core meaning for polysemous words, and found that sense consistency facilitates comprehension relative to a neutral baseline, while sense inconsistency inhibits comprehension.
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Paper has been my ruin: Conceptual relations of polysemous senses
TL;DR: This paper examined the similarity of word senses using categorization and inference tasks and found that subjects did not categorize together phrases that used a polysemous word in different senses, though they did when the word was used in the same sense.
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Development of an Innovative Pointe Shoe
Lina A. Colucci,Devorah E. Klein +1 more
TL;DR: In the range of specialized work equipment, pointe shoes occupy a special place as mentioned in this paper and the design of these essential tools for dancers has remained essentially unchanged for 200 years. In an age of high...
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When to ignore what users say
TL;DR: This paper observed that observations of people's actual behavior often contradict their self-perceptions and can lead to better solutions and improvements. But, they also pointed out that people tend to ignore their observations.
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