Word Cluster

A Word Cluster is a word set that is a text-item cluster (composed of words).

• AKA: Word Form Cluster.
• Context:
  • It can range from being a Syntactic Word Cluster to being a Semantic Word Cluster.
  • It can be produced by a Word Clustering System that solves a Word Clustering Task.
  • It can range from being a Labeled Word Cluster to being an Unlabeled Word Cluster.
• Example(s):
  • a Brown Word-Cluster.
  • a Clark Word-Cluster.
  • a Petrov et al Word Cluster.
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Phrase Cluster.
  • a Sentence Cluster.
  • a Document Cluster.
• See: Word Clustering Algorithm, Classified Word.

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References

2004

• (Miller et al., 2004) ⇒ Scott Miller, Jethran Guinness, and Alex Zamanian. (2004). “Name Tagging with Word Clusters and Discriminative Training.” In: Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004.

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