EXPLORING DISTRIBUTIONAL SEMANTICS WITH THE SPACEXPLORER TOOL
EXPLORING DISTRIBUTIONAL SEMANTICS WITH THE SPACEXPLORER TOOL
Author(s): Ágoston TóthSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: cognitive science; computational linguistics; distributional semantics; lexicon;
Summary/Abstract: Distributional studies quantify the similarity of words by collecting word co-occurrence frequency information from large text corpora. According to the distributional hypothesis, this similarity is a semantic phenomenon. This paper aims to introduce the basics of Distributional Semantics and a new tool, spaceXplorer, which facilitates distributional investigations by collecting co-occurrence information from a Wikipedia snapshot (with or without using linguistic annotation) and displays word similarity information through a convenient, interactive user interface.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 21
- Page Range: 217-224
- Page Count: 8
