Measures of distributional similarity

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1999-June, Issue , 1999, Pages 25-32

  Lee, Lillian ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CO-OCCURRENCE; DISTRIBUTIONAL SIMILARITIES; EMPIRICAL COMPARISON; NOVEL FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY ESTIMATION; SIMILARITY FUNCTIONS; SIMILARITY MEASURE; THREE FOLDS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 85149114506     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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