Distributional Structure

Harris, Z. S. (1954). Distributional Structure. Word, 10(2–3), 2-3.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1954

Volume

10

Issue

2–3

Pages

2-3

DOI

10.1080/00437956.1954.11659520

DOI registrant

Taylor & Francis

Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/00437956.1954.11659520

Cited from

linguistics_semiotics

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Paradigmatic vs. Syntagmatic Relations
  • T3 — Distributional semantics and paradigmatic-relations capture. Harris (1954

    This sourceHarris Distributional Structure distributional hypothesis paradigmatic word meaning.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    The abstract states the distributional programme - describing a language by the occurrence of parts relative to other parts - supporting the distributional half of the heading, but it never mentions paradigmatic relations.

    “Here we will discuss how each language can be described in terms of a distributional structure, i.e. in terms of the occurrence of parts (ultimately sounds) relative to other parts, and how this description is complete without intrusion of other features such as history or meaning.”

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Domain-specific

• Bag-of-words model
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Mechanisms

• Vector Embedding Model
  • The reason any of this encodes meaning at all is the distributional hypothesis — the idea that items appearing in similar contexts tend to carry similar meaning

    This sourceShows that words with similar distributions across linguistic environments tend to share meaning.

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