Distributional semantics [1] is a research area that develops and studies theories and methods for quantifying and categorizing semantic similarities between linguistic items based on their distributional properties in large samples of language data. The basic idea of distributional semantics can be summed up in the so-called distributional hypothesis: linguistic items with similar distributions have similar meanings.
- ^ Lenci, Alessandro; Sahlgren, Magnus (2023). Distributional Semantics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511783692.