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pointwise mutual information: a standalone construct

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Natural language processing

an association measure comparing how often two words occur together with how often they would co-occur by chance, introduced for lexicography.

In natural language processing, pointwise mutual information refers to an association measure comparing how often two words occur together with how often they would co-occur by chance, introduced for lexicography. This meaning comes from Church (1989) in Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -.[1]

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References

  1. Church, K. W., & Hanks, P. (1989). Word association norms, mutual information, and lexicography. Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -. https://doi.org/10.3115/981623.981633

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