Database of semantic transparency and semantic relatedness of Japanese two-kanji compound words

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In the present project, semantic transparency for Japanese 10,015 two-kanji compound words was estimated by undergraduate students. The results showed that 94% of words are transparent (i.e., semantically related to both kanji characters constructing the words). The results also indicated that syntactic structure and phonological structure, as well as morphology each kanji denotes, affect semantic transparency. Based on the semantic transparency data, semantic relatedness among words those have a same kanji character as a component was calculated. Finally, database of the semantic transparency and the semantic relatedness was constructed.