Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus Network
A Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (word association study) dataset of 23,132 nodes and 312,310 edges, collected by G.R. Kiss et al.. Each record contains directed: True, weighted: True. Directed word association network from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus — edges connect stimulus words to response words.. Suitable for semantic network analysis, word association modeling, NLP.
Cite this dataset at
eat.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 23,132 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
eat- Authors
- Kiss, George R.; Armstrong, Christine; Milroy, Robert
- Year
- 1973
- Source paper
- An associative thesaurus of English and its computer analysis
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 23,132
- Nodes
- 23,132
- Edges
- 312,310 (directed)
- Nodes are
- word
- Edges are
- word association
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2010 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://konect.cc/networks/eat/ unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 1.1 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{kiss1973,
title = {An associative thesaurus of English and its computer analysis},
author = {Kiss, George R. and Armstrong, Christine and Milroy, Robert},
year = {1973},
note = {The Comput. and Literary Studies, 1973.}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Kiss, G. R., Armstrong, C., & Milroy, R. (1973). Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus Network [Data set]. https://eat.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Kiss, George R., et al. Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus Network. 1973, eat.echo.directory/.