A mathematical model of historical semantics and the grouping of word meanings into concepts

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 227-248

  Cooper, Martin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AVERAGE NUMBERS; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; WORD MEANING; WORD SENSE;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 33646411246     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0891201054223995     Document Type: Article

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