liwca.datasets.tables.fetch_psychnorms

liwca.datasets.tables.fetch_psychnorms()

Fetch the psychNorms column-classification metadata table.

The returned DataFrame describes each of the ~290 psycholinguistic norms aggregated in psychNorms - one row per norm, columns norm, description, citation, category, source. For per-norm lexicon access (the actual word-level scores sliced into a weighted .dicx), use liwca.datasets.dictionaries.fetch_psychnorms.

Distributed on the psychNorms GitHub repository.

If used, cite: Hussain et al., 2024. Probing the contents of semantic representations from text, behavior, and brain data using the psychNorms metabase. arXiv doi:10.48550/arXiv.2412.04936

See also

liwca.datasets.dictionaries.fetch_psychnorms

Fetch one psychNorms norm as a weighted .dicx dictionary.

liwca.datasets.dictionaries.list_psychnorms_stems

List the valid stems accepted by dictionaries.fetch_psychnorms.

Return type:

DataFrame