| On philology, potatoes and construction. |
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Well, this is just my first approach to blog-writing. I want it to be the way to keep in touch with colleagues and friends.
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| End of harvest |
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| Another year and I am thankful for being able to participate in the harvest too. Less potatoes than previous years, the tubers slightly smaller on average, still a good season to celebrate. |
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| Cosine distance and semantic relations |
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Following a previous post that illustrated the meaning of a word based on its context, a script to calculate the cosine distance among terms. The idea behind is that if you have enough data, semantic relations can be solved from context. As a practical application, given a place name, the cosine distance measures the proximity (or distance) of a geographical entity relative to two geographical features used as semantic tracts (e.g. to determine which entities are islands).
In the script linked above I use the data given as a toy example by Baroni,Bernardi, & Zamparelli (2014, pp. 248-250) to introduce the measure in terms of distributional semantics. |
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