Supervised Semantic Differential for Cross-Cultural Concept Analysis: A Case Study of Human Affect
Cross-cultural comparison of psychological meaning requires methods that go beyond word-level translation and examine how semantic dimensions are organized across languages. We introduce a cross-lingual extension of the Supervised Semantic Differential (SSD), which estimates supervised semantic gradients in embedding space and compares them across aligned multilingual word embeddings. The method tests gradient alignment and difference using permutation procedures and bootstrap intervals, and interprets residual differences through clustering around the difference gradient. We demonstrate the approach on Polish, English, and French affective norm lexicons, modeling Valence, Arousal, and Do...
| Authors | Jan Sikora, Paweł Lenartowicz, Hubert Plisiecki |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 27 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 27 May 2026 |
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