Latent Semantic Distance Between Chinese Basic Words and Non-basic Words
What determines the basicness of words still remains a challenging question in creating basic lexicons and basic wordlists.Since frequency and dispersion seem to be the most dominant criteria,it is questioned that whether contextual factors also help to define the concept of basicness. From the perspective of the distributional model,meanings are represented through the interaction between words and their contexts.Hence,this research aims to examine an existing wordlist and tentatively take it as the standard of basicness, trying to seek the differences between basic words and non-basic words based on their occurrences in different texts.Two experiments were conducted to answer the research questions.The first calculated the latent semantic distances between basic words and non-basic words.The second calculated and examined the near neighbors of basic word and non-basic words.It has been discovered that basic words tend to occur in more similar texts than non-basic words do;in addition,the near neighbors of basic words tend to be more basic,too.This research contributes to providing a more contextual perspective in exploring basicness.
Basic Lexicon Basic Word Lists Latent Semantic Analysis
Shanon Yi-Hsin Lin Shu-Kai Hsieh
Graduate Institute of Linguistics,National Taiwan University,Taipei,Taiwan
国际会议
Chinese Lexical Semantics 15th Workshop(CLSW 2014)(第十五届汉语词汇语义学国际研讨会)
澳门
英文
270-277
2014-06-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）