Publication details
Semantics of Token Positions in Sentences
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Slavonic Natural Language Processing in the 21st Century |
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| Keywords | token position; histogram; clustering; semantics; corpus linguistics; distributional semantics |
| Description | This paper analyses absolute positions of Czech and English words in sentences. It shows that even this simple statistics provides some insight into semantics of the words. When the absolute position distribu- tions are represented as matrices and clustered the resulting hierarchy reveals semantic relations between the words. |