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distributional semantics

distributional semantics noun: a field of research focused on quantifying and categorizing the semantic similarities between linguistic items.

Noun

distributional semantics (uncountable)

  1. A field of research focused on quantifying and categorizing the semantic similarities between linguistic items.

Questions about distributional semantics

What does distributional semantics mean?
Distributional semantics means a field of research focused on quantifying and categorizing the semantic similarities between linguistic items.
What part of speech is distributional semantics?
Distributional semantics is a noun.

Words near distributional semantics in the dictionary

  1. distribution servers
  2. distribution transformer
  3. distribution transformers
  4. distribution-free
  5. distributional
  6. distributional semantics
  7. distributionalism
  8. distributionally
  9. distributional–relational database
  10. distributional–relational databases
  11. distributionism

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