A context-theoretic framework for compositionality in distributional semantics

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-71

  Clarke, Daoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STATISTICS;

ALGEBRAIC THEORIES; COMPOSITIONALITY; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; DISTRIBUTIONAL SEMANTICS; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION; MATRIX MULTIPLICATION; RECOGNIZING TEXTUAL ENTAILMENTS; SUBSEQUENCE MATCHING;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84856190967     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/COLI_a_00084     Document Type: Article

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