Training Module
Pericles project
  • Home
  • Dynamics of Knowledge Organisation
  • 1. Semantics and DP: basic concepts, theories, and trends
  • Supplementary reading on the distributional hypothesis

Supplementary reading on the distributional hypothesis

This reading takes a glance at the problem of meaning, and its connection via information to digital preservation.

Harris, Z. 1954. Distributional structure. Word 10 (23), 146-162.

Estimated time required 1-2 hours of careful reading

Dynamics of Knowledge Organisation

  • More modules
    • All modules
    • Archiving & Preservation - A Brief Introduction
    • Contact us
    • Contextualising semantics
    • Digital Ecosystem Model
    • Dynamics of Knowledge Organisation
    • New Perspectives on Appraisal
    • Ontology Engineering & Linked Data
    • Policy management using the Policy Editor
    • Recent Developments in the Conservation of Digital Art
    • Sheer curation
    • Space data: specificities and lifecycle

  • 1. Semantics and DP: basic concepts, theories, and trends
    • Recorded lecture
    • Supplementary reading on the distributional hypothesis
    • Supplementary reading: Schlieder’s paper on major types of decay as a problem for digital preservation
  • 2. Vectors and matrices: word meaning for advanced access
  • 3. Vector fields: a new approach to evolving semantics
  • 4. The Semantic Web & the Emergence of Ontologies
  • 5. Semantic Technologies & DP
  • 6. Evolving Semantics: Ontology Evolution & Semantic Drifts
    • Send feedback on the PMTP
    • Contact Us
    Images published on the website are licenced under CC BY 2.0.