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Hashimoto, T. (1998) Development of Meaning Structure by Usage-based Word Relationships. In Masanori Sugisaka, editor, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 3rd'98), pages 662--665.
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Development of Meaning Structure by Usage­based Word Relationships
Takashi Hashimoto
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Lab. for Information Synthesis
Brain Science Institute, RIKEN
Hirosawa 2­1, Wako, Saitama, 351­01, JAPAN
Abstract Development of meaning structure is studied from a usage­based viewpoint by a constructive approach. The meaning structure is represented by relationships between words. A word's relationship to other words, which represents meanings of the word, is derived by analyzing similarity of the word's usage in sentences. Words make clusters according to their similarity. The word clusters are classified into several types and show some remarkable dynamics. The clusters and their dy­ namics are studied by means of hierarchical cluster analysis and principal coordinate analysis.
Keywords: Usage­based viewpoint; Constructive approach; Evolutionary linguistics; Word similarity; Word clusters
1 introduction We propose usage­based viewpoint as that meanings of words should be discussed in terms of how language is used [1]. Since interrelationships among words are employed as a representation of meanings of words, the point of view means that a word's relation to other words should be derived by analyzing the word's usage in the language. Constructive approaches are highly advantageous for understanding dynamically complex systems [2]. These approaches are also useful for studying evolutionary lin­ guistics which is a new candidate for potentially clari­ fying the origins and evolution of language [3]. It is im­ portant to note that language are typically expressed as such dynamically complex systems as emergence, self­ organization, collective behavior, clustering, diversifi­ cation, hierarchy formation, and so on. It is also im­ portant to point out that language systems must have both adaptability and stability. If a language is too 3 E­mail address: takashi@brain.riken.go.jp rigid, its users will not be able to formulate new ex­ pressions to describe diverse experiences, and if ...
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@inproceedings{hashimoto98developmentOf,
  author={T. Hashimoto},
  title={Development of Meaning Structure by Usage-based Word Relationships},
  year={1998},
  pages={662--665},
  editor={Masanori Sugisaka},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 3rd'98)},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/hashimoto98developmentOf.html},
  keywords={Usage-based viewpoint; Constructive approach; Evolutionary linguistics; Word similarity; Word clusters}
}

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