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Explorations in the derivation of word co-occurrence statistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

Joseph P. Levy ,
John A. Bullinaria  and
Malti Patel
Joseph P. Levy
Affiliation:
Birkbeck College, London, U.K.
John A. Bullinaria
Affiliation:
University of Reading, U.K.
Malti Patel
Affiliation:
Macquarie University, AUSTRALIA
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Abstract

Recent work has demonstrated that counts of which other words co-occur with a word of interest can reflect interesting properties of that word. We have studied aspects of this kind of methodology by systematically examining the effects of different combinations of parameters used in the preparation of co-occurrence statistics. Several psychologically relevant evaluation measures are used. We have found that successful performance on the evaluation tasks depends on the correct selection of parameters such as window size and distance metric.

Type
Part III. Psycholinguistics
Information
South Pacific Journal of Psychology , Volume 10 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Asia-Pacific Language Research , 1999 , pp. 99 - 111
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Copyright © University of Papua New Guinea and the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Territory University, Australia 1999

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