Distributional lexical semantics: Toward uniform representation paradigms for advanced acquisition and processing tasks
Roberto Basili, Marco Pennacchiotti · Natural Language Engineering · 2010
The distributional hypothesis states thatwords with similar distributional properties have similar semantic properties(Harris 1968). This perspective on word semantics, was early discussed in linguistics (Firth 1957; Harris 1968), and then successfully applied to Information Retrieval (Salton, Wong and Yang 1975). In Information Retrieval, distributional notions (e.g. document frequency and word co-occurrence counts) have proved a key factor of success, as opposed to early logic-based approaches to relevance modeling (van Rijsbergen 1986; Chiaramella and Chevallet 1992; van Rijsbergen and Lalmas 1996).