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Article Dans Une Revue Current Psychology Letters/Behaviour, Brain and Cognition Année : 2006

Effects of High-Order Co-occurrences on Word Semantic Similarities

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A computational model of the construction of word meaning through exposure to texts is built in order to simulate the effects of co-occurrence values on word semantic similarities, paragraph by paragraph. Semantic similarity is here viewed as association. It turns out that the similarity between two words W1 and W2 strongly increases with a co-occurrence, decreases with the occurrence of W1 without W2 or W2 without W1, and slightly increases with high-order co-occurrences. Therefore, operationalizing similarity as a frequency of co-occurrence probably introduces a bias: first, there are cases in which there is similarity without co-occurrence and, second, the frequency of co-occurrence overestimates similarity.
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hal-00268749 , version 1 (01-04-2008)

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Benoît Lemaire, Guy Denhière. Effects of High-Order Co-occurrences on Word Semantic Similarities. Current Psychology Letters/Behaviour, Brain and Cognition, 2006, 18 (1), pp.1. ⟨hal-00268749⟩
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