Distributional hypothesis

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The distributional hypothesis is the idea that words that are used and occur in the same contexts tend to convey similar meanings - "a word is characterized by the company it keeps".


This idea is known under a few names, but note that few of them really describe a technique, or even the specific assumptions they make.