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Sadler, Victor. 1990. A corpus-based measure of semantic proximity. In Thelen, Marcel and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, eds. Translation and meaning 1. Maastricht: Euroterm. pp. 70–78.

Publication type

Article in jnl/bk

Publication language

English

Keywords

context=socio-political context | corpus=corpora | machine translation=automatic translation | semantics

Abstract

This paper describes a technique for quantifying the semantic distance between any two concepts in a given language on the basis of a comparison of their contextual patterns in a corpus. This technique was developed for machine translation but has some other interesting applications as well.

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