Distributional Lexical Semantics Heuristic

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Distributional Lexical Semantics Heuristic is a lexical semantics heuristic (that words are semantically similar) to the extent to which they share syntactic contexts (similar word distributions).



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  • http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Distributional_Hypothesis
    • QUOTE: The Distributional Hypothesis is that words that occur in the same contexts tend to have similar meanings (Harris, 1954). The underlying idea that "a word is characterized by the company it keeps" was popularized by Firth (1957), and it is implicit in Weaver's (1955) discussion of word sense disambiguation (originally written as a memorandum, in 1949). The Distributional Hypothesis is the basis for Statistical Semantics. Although the Distributional Hypothesis originated in Linguistics, it is now receiving attention in Cognitive Science (McDonald and Ramscar, 2001). The origin and theoretical basis of the Distributional Hypothesis is discussed by Sahlgren (2008).

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  • (Gleitman, 2002) ⇒ Lila R. Gleitman. (2002). “Verbs of a Feather Flock Together II: The child's discovery of words and their meanings". The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century: Philosophy of science, syntax and semantics. Current issues in Linguistic Theory (John Benjamins Publishing Company) 1. doi:10.1075/cilt.228.17gle.

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