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Explorations of morphological structure in distributional spaceEdited by Melanie J. Bell, Juhani Järvikivi and Vito Pirrelli
[The Mental Lexicon 17:3] 2022
► pp. 326–336
Edited by Melanie J. Bell, Juhani Järvikivi and Vito Pirrelli
[The Mental Lexicon 17:3] 2022
► pp. 326–336
Introduction
Explorations of morphological structure in distributional space
Article outline
- Assessing vector similarity
- Dimension reduction, visualization, and classification
- Distributional vectors: What are they actually?
- Overview of contributions
- Concluding remarks
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