The phrase "associating words" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the relationship or connection between different words, often in the context of language learning or linguistics.
Example: "In language acquisition, associating words with their meanings is crucial for vocabulary development."
Alternatives: "linking words" or "connecting words".
A pioneer PET-scan study in 1988 by Steven Petersen, Marcus Raichle, and their colleagues showed the different areas of the brain that are activated by reading words, listening to words, uttering words, and associating words.
This study assigned seven codes to behaviors observed in video recordings of each designer's ideation, and investigated the connections between the seven types of behaviors and the modes of associating words and images to be used as design concepts in developing the AGCI interface prototype.
Blinkx figured out its relevance by associating words like dog, pooch and unbelievable.
Complex networks can help in resolving context through preserving sequence and by associating words in a sentence, sentences in a paragraph and even paragraphs in an article.
With advances in syntax and semantics came the realization that knowing a language was not merely a matter of associating words with concepts.
They discuss three actual AI programs, and defend various attributions of mentality to them, including understanding, and conclude that computers understand; they learn "intensions by associating words and other linguistic structure with their denotations, as detected through sensory stimuli".
A system has to learn to associate words like X above with the correct meaning instead of overfitting the spurious interpretations.
In general, the observers reported some difficulty to associate words with a theme.
To associate words with these topics (plus an unrelated category, other), we follow an open vocabulary approach [14].
"One of the projects we're particularly interested in trying out very soon is getting baboons to associate words with some kind of meaning," Grainger says.
Children learn to associate words and routines; think tech or mealtime.
