A distributional model of semantic context effects in lexical processing

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 17-24

  McDonald, Scott ^a   Brew, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CONTEXT EFFECTS; CONTEXTUAL CONSTRAINTS; DISTRIBUTIONAL MODELS; SEMANTIC CONTEXT; SINGLE WORDS; WORD CO-OCCURRENCE;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 78650706808     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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