Effects of High-Order Co-occurrences on Word Semantic Similarity
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Benoît Lemaire and Guy Denhière
Effects of High-Order Co-occurrences on Word Semantic Similarity
PMI-IR estimates the semantic similarity between a pair of words by how frequently they co-occur within a certain window of text. This simple measure of similarity is surprisingly good at recognizing synonyms: it seems that synonyms often appear close together in text. [...]
Filed under: Computational Linguistics, Semantics | Tagged: text analysis, SVD, semantic similarity, LSA, PMI-IR | 4 Comments »