Abstract
Word associations have always played an important role in psychological learning theory, and have been investigated not only in theory, but also in experimental work where, for example, such associations were collected from human subjects. Typically, the subjects are given questionnaires with lists of stimulus words, and were asked to write down for each stimulus word the spontaneous association which first came to mind. This led to collections of associations, the so-called association norms, as exemplified. Among the best known association norms are the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT), the Minnesota Word Association Norms and the University of South Florida Free Association Norms. More recently, attempts have been made to use crowd sourcing methods for collecting associations in various languages (Jeux de mots and Word Association Study). In this way, researchers are able to collect much larger datasets than was previously possible.
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