<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper presents results of the ongoing research on creation of the semantic field of the “empire” concept. A semantic field is a collection of content units covering a certain area of human experience and forming a relatively autonomous microsystem with one or several centers. Relations in such microsystems are also called associations. The idea is to extract from data on syntagmatic collocability a set of lexical units connected by systemic paradigmatic relations of various types and strength using distributional analysis techniques. The first goal of the study is to develop methodology to fill a semantic field with lexical units on the basis of morphologically tagged corpora. We were using the Sketch Engine corpus system that implements the method of distributional statistical analysis. Text material is represented by our own corpora in the domain of “empire”. In the course of the work we have acquired lists of items filling the semantic space around the concept of “empire”.</p></abstract>

The paper presents results of the ongoing research on creation of the semantic field of the “empire” concept. A semantic field is a collection of content units covering a certain area of human experience and forming a relatively autonomous microsystem with one or several centers. Relations in such microsystems are also called associations. The idea is to extract from data on syntagmatic collocability a set of lexical units connected by systemic paradigmatic relations of various types and strength using distributional analysis techniques. The first goal of the study is to develop methodology to fill a semantic field with lexical units on the basis of morphologically tagged corpora. We were using the Sketch Engine corpus system that implements the method of distributional statistical analysis. Text material is represented by our own corpora in the domain of “empire”. In the course of the work we have acquired lists of items filling the semantic space around the concept of “empire”.

Ways of Automatic Identification of Words Belonging to Semantic Field

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The paper presents results of the ongoing research on creation of the semantic field of the “empire” concept. A semantic field is a collection of content units...

Ways of Automatic Identification of Words Belonging to Semantic Field

Publié en ligne: 21 déc. 2019

Pages: 234 - 243

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2019-0054

Mots clés
semantic field, concept of empire, distributive and statistical analysis, corpus, thesaurus

© 2019 Victor Zakharov, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Ways of Automatic Identification of Words Belonging to Semantic Field

Publié en ligne: 21 déc. 2019

Pages: 234 - 243

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2019-0054

Mots cléssemantic field, concept of empire, distributive and statistical analysis, corpus, thesaurus

© 2019 Victor Zakharov, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
semantic field, concept of empire, distributive and statistical analysis, corpus, thesaurus