distributional semantics

noun

A field of research focused on quantifying and categorizing the semantic similarities between linguistic items.

Meanings

noundistributional semantics (uncountable)
  1. uncountablecomputationalA field of research focused on quantifying and categorizing the semantic similarities between linguistic items.
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