Psychological Sciences - Semantics Lab

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Selected Presentations and Publications

Selected Presentations

Harris, D., Ingram, K., Hahn, L.W. (2023) Using Machine Learning to Categorize Political Language Western Kentucky University Student Scholar Showcase, Bowling Green, KY (April 1, 2023).

Twidwell, R.,  Teeters, J. & Hahn, L.W. (2018).  Alcohol-Impaired Driving Text Intervention Outcomes Moderated by Linguistic Attributes. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, D. C. (November 16, 2018).

Froedge, T. H., Hahn, L.W. & Leibman, N. (2018). Identifying Competitive and Collaborative Text with Machine Learning. Western Kentucky University Student Research Conference, Bowling Green, KY (March 24, 2018).

Twidwell, R.,  Teeters, J. & Hahn, L.W. (2018). Linguistic Attributes of a Text Message-based Intervention. Western Kentucky University Student Research Conference, Bowling Green, KY (March 24, 2018).

 Whitaker, J. & Hahn, L.W. (2018). Selecting Synonyms Computationally. Western Kentucky University Student Research Conference, Bowling Green, KY (March 24, 2018).

Leibman, N. & Hahn, L.W. (2017). Impacts of Deception on Writing Style. Western Kentucky University Student Research Conference, Bowling Green, KY (March 25, 2017).

Carrico,  T. & Hahn, L.W. (2017). A Natural Language Approach to Email Encryption. Western Kentucky University Student Research Conference, Bowling Green, KY (March 25, 2017).

Smailhodvic, A., Andrew, K., Hahn, L., Womble, P. C., & Webb, C. (2014). Sample NLPDE and NLODE Social-Media Modeling of Information Transmission for Infectious Diseases: Case Study Ebola. arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.00198.

 Hahn, L. W., Blaetz, T. S., & Walters, W. A. (2014). Adding new words to the mental lexicon and identifying the next new words. 55th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Long Beach, CA (November 20-23, 2014).

Hahn, L.W., Walters, W.A., & Blaetz, T.S. (2014). Mining Twitter for new words.  36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, QC, Canada (July 23-26, 2014).

Blaetz, T.S., Walters, W.A., & Hahn, L.W. (2014). Twitterese: A study of online social networking language. Western Kentucky University Student Research Conference, Bowling Green, KY (March 17-24, 2014).

Hahn, L.W. & Mansfield, J. Z. (2013). Separating groom from bride when inferring gender from a text corpus. 54th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society.  Toronto, Canada (November 15-17, 2013)

Hahn, L.W. (2012). The final word:  Statistical regularities governing the word ending a sentence.  Poster presented at 53rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society.  Minneapolis, MN (November 15-18, 2012)

Hahn, L.W. (2012). The end is near:  Anticipating the end of a sentence Poster presented for the 34th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.  Sapporo, Japan

Hahn, L.W. (2011). “He Said, She Said: Gender Roles Inferred from a Text Corpus” for presentation at the 2011 APS Annual Convention in Washington, DC (May 26-29, 2011)

Kramer, C., Frost, A., Hahn, L. & Derryberry, P. (2011).The Effect of Sexual Context on Moral Decision Making in Men and Women.   Poster presented at the 41st annual Student Research Conference, Bowling Green, KY.  Winner of “Best Undergraduate Poster in Social Sciences”

Kersey, N.J. & Hahn, L.W. (2009). Semantic Effects of the Relationship Between Sexuality and Aggression.  Oral presentation at the 40th annual Student Research Conference, Bowling Green, KY. 

Hahn, L.W. (2009). Comparing Semantic Dimensions with a Text Corpus and Free Associations.  Poster presented for the 31st annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.  Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dickens-York, A.K., Kersey, N.J. & Hahn, L.W. (2009). Gender Differences in the Mental Representation of Aggressive and Neutral Words.  Poster presented at the 39th annual Student Research Conference, Bowling Green, KY. 

Hahn, L.W. (2008). Entropy and Set Size in Free Association. 30th Annual Cognitive Science Society.  Washington, D. C.

Hahn, L.W. (2007). Multiple Semantic Associates For A Single Individual With Free Association.  48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society.  Long Beach, CA.

Selected Publications

King, S. A., Twidwell, R. E., Hahn, L. W., & Teeters, J. B. (2021). The Moderating Effect of Positively Valenced Words on Driving after Drinking Outcomes. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science, 82(1), 26-31.

Mienaltowski, A., Groh, B. N., Hahn, L. W., & Norman, J. F. (2019). Peripheral threat detection in facial expressions by younger and older adults. Vision research, 165, 22-30.

Hahn, L.W.  (2013). Challenging the authenticity of an online social network account with a tunable linguistic discriminator.  Technical Report prepared for contract W911NF-12-C-0114 with the Army Research Lab as a subcontract with EWA Government Systems, Inc.  Not approved for public release.

Hahn, L.W.  (2011). Measuring Local Context as Context-Word Probabilities. Behavior Research Methods. DOI: 10.3758/s13428-011-0148-y

Hahn, L.W. & Sivley, R. M. (2011).  Entropy, Semantic Relatedness and Proximity.  Behavior Research Methods, 43,  DOI: 10.3758/s13428-011-0087-7.

Hahn, L.W. (2008). Overcoming the Limitations of Single-Response Free Associations.  Special Issue of the Electronic Journal of Integrative Biosciences,5,  25-36.