通过跨语言语义梯度分析,揭示不同文化对情感的深层认知差异。
Supervised Semantic Differential for Cross-Cultural Concept Analysis: A Case Study of Human Affect

- 基于监督语义差异法扩展跨语言嵌入空间梯度比较
- 三语言情感维度显著可复现,其中唤醒度与支配度差异更明显
- 适合研究跨文化心理学、语义演化及多语言认知差异的学者
跨文化心理意义比较需超越词级翻译,考察语义维度在不同语言中的组织方式。本文提出一种跨语言监督语义差异(SSD)方法,通过估计嵌入空间中的监督语义梯度,并在对齐的多语言词嵌入间进行比较。利用置换检验和自助区间评估梯度对齐与差异,通过围绕差异梯度聚类解释残差差异。该方法在波兰语、英语和法语的情感规范词表上验证,建模了效价(Valence)、唤醒度(Arousal)和支配度(Dominance)。情感维度在跨语言和模型设置下均显著可恢复。跨语言比较显示整体对齐性,同时存在结构化残差差异:效价基本共享,而唤醒度与支配度则体现出身体威胁、审美刺激、内在情绪性、宏观权威与日常控制等可解释的对比。部分聚类反映语料特异性偏差,提示解读需谨慎。跨语言SSD为测试语义对齐、识别分歧并生成跨文化心理差异假设提供了可解释框架。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
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 Dominance where available. Affective dimensions were significantly recoverable across languages and model settings. Cross-lingual comparisons showed broad alignment together with structured residual differences: Valence appeared mostly shared, whereas Arousal and Dominance produced more interpretable contrasts involving bodily threat, aesthetic stimulation, internal emotionality, macro-level authority, and everyday control. Several clusters also reflected corpus-specific artifacts, underscoring the need for cautious interpretation. Cross-lingual SSD offers an explainable framework for testing semantic alignment, identifying divergence, and generating hypotheses about cross-cultural differences in psychological meaning.
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