《textanalytics》课程简单总结（1）：两种word relations——Paradigmatic vs. Syntagmatic

coursera上的公开课《https://www.coursera.org/course/textanalytics》系列，讲的非常不错哦。

1、两种关系：Paradigmatic vs. Syntagmatic（聚合和组合）

• Paradigmatic:  A & B have paradigmatic relation if they can be substituted for each other (i.e., A & B are in the same class) 
– E.g., “cat” and “dog”; “Monday” and “Tuesday” （聚合：同一类别的，high similar context）
• Syntagmatic: A & B have syntagmatic relation if they can be combined with each other (i.e., A & B are related semantically) 
– E.g., “cat” and “sit”;  “car” and “drive”（组合：常在一起出现的，high correlated occurrences  but relatively low individual occurrences）

2、挖掘Paradigmatic（聚合）关系：

2.1、如何挖掘两个词（例如dog和cat）的聚合关系强不强？

因为聚合关系本质上反映的是context similarity，所以我们可以首先获取所有文档中出现dog、cat的句子的context，dog左边一个词的context、dog右边一个词的context，例如：Left1(“cat”) = {“my”, “his”, “big”, “a”, “the”,…}，Right1(“cat”) = {“eats”, “ate”, “is”, “has”, ….}，Window(“cat”)  =   {“my”, “his”, “big”,  “eats”,  “fish”, …}；同理可获得