On the Distinctive Co-occurrence Characteristics of Antonymy
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| author | Cao, Zhihan Yamada, Hiroaki Tokunaga, Takenobu |
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| contents | Antonymy has long received particular attention in lexical semantics. Previous studies have shown that antonym pairs frequently co-occur in text, across genres and parts of speech, more often than would be expected by chance. However, whether this co-occurrence pattern is distinctive of antonymy remains unclear, due to a lack of comparison with other semantic relations. This work fills the gap by comparing antonymy with three other relations across parts of speech using robust co-occurrence metrics. We find that antonymy is distinctive in three respects: antonym pairs co-occur with high strength, in a preferred linear order, and within short spans. All results are available online. |
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| spellingShingle | On the Distinctive Co-occurrence Characteristics of Antonymy Cao, Zhihan Yamada, Hiroaki Tokunaga, Takenobu Computation and Language Antonymy has long received particular attention in lexical semantics. Previous studies have shown that antonym pairs frequently co-occur in text, across genres and parts of speech, more often than would be expected by chance. However, whether this co-occurrence pattern is distinctive of antonymy remains unclear, due to a lack of comparison with other semantic relations. This work fills the gap by comparing antonymy with three other relations across parts of speech using robust co-occurrence metrics. We find that antonymy is distinctive in three respects: antonym pairs co-occur with high strength, in a preferred linear order, and within short spans. All results are available online. |
| title | On the Distinctive Co-occurrence Characteristics of Antonymy |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11534 |