Chapter 26 Language technology approach to "seeing" in Akkadian

One of the ways meanings of words can be understood is based on their distributional properties. Such methodology offers an interesting quantitative viewpoint on the study of the lexicography of long-extinct languages. This chapter explores the use of Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI), a well-known...

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Main Author: Sahala, Aleksi (auth)
Other Authors: Svärd, Saana (auth)
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2022
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