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Measuring the semantic headedness of English blends with token-based semantic vector space modeling: a corpus-based study.

This article analyzes the semantic headedness of English blends with distributional semantics methods. The semantic head of a blend is the source word that transfers its semantic information to the blend as a whole. For example, a sitcom is a kind of comedy. But is FedEx a kind of express , and is w...

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Published in:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 1075 - 1092
Main Authors: Meng, Qingnan, Hilpert, Martin
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Dec2024
Subjects:
American English language
English language
Vector spaces
Logistic regression analysis
Wireless Internet
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