statistical semantics

noun

The study of estimation of the meanings of words by looking at patterns of words in huge collections of texts, using statistical methods.

Meanings

nounstatistical semantics (uncountable)
  1. uncountablecomputationalThe study of estimation of the meanings of words by looking at patterns of words in huge collections of texts, using statistical methods.
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