Bigram semantic distance as an index of continuous semantic flow in natural language: Theory, tools, and applications.
Jamie J. Reilly, Ann Marie Finley, Celia P. Litovsky, Yoed Nissan Kenett · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 2023
(London, 1908). In one application, we showed that bigrams spanning sentence boundaries are punctuated by jumps in the semantic distance. We discuss the promise of this technique for characterizing semantic processing in real-world narratives and for bridging findings at the single word level with macroscale discourse analyses. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).