Is singular value decomposition useful for word similarity extraction?

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 95-119

  Gamallo, Pablo ^a   Bordag, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparable corpora; Information extraction; Singular value decomposition; Word similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955542204     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-010-9129-5     Document Type: Article

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