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Revision as of 01:13, 23 March 2024
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 seems e.g. supported by the way language learners pick up the likely meaning of new words.
This idea is known under a few names,
but note that few of them really describe a very specific or technique or further assumptions they make.
For example,
distributional semantics says "we do that by looking at distributions", but actually little more than that.