The Noun Associations for German (NAG) searchable database is now available to interested researchers and scholars. This web-based searchable database includes free association norms collected to over 400 German concrete nouns. Associations were elicited from 300 native speakers of German to either orthographic stimuli or orthographic + pictoral stimuli. Similar to well-known association databases for English (such as the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus and the University of South Florida Free Association Norms), the NAG database provides information about the frequency of an associate response to a given target word or picture. Entries in the database are additionally coded for features such as semantic category, part of speech, frequency of occurrence, and order of mention.
The main search page can be found at: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/nag/ More information about the database and search options is also available at the same address. There is no charge for using this database.
The collection of the association norms and the construction of the database were supported by a research grant ''Anschubfinanzierung'' from Saarland University.
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