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Machine Learning Q and AI
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Machine Learning Q and AI

by Sebastian Raschka
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced
264 pages
6h 10m
English
No Starch Press
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14THE DISTRIBUTIONAL HYPOTHESIS

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What is the distributional hypothesis in natural language processing (NLP)? Where is it used, and how far does it hold true?

The distributional hypothesis is a linguistic theory suggesting that words occurring in the same contexts tend to have similar meanings, according to the original source, “Distributional Structure” by Zellig S. Harris. Succinctly, the more similar the meanings of two words are, the more often they appear in similar contexts.

Consider the sentence in Figure 14-1, for example. The words cats and dogs often occur in similar contexts, and we could replace cats with dogs without making the sentence ...

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