We study the global topology of the syntactic and semantic distributional similarity

networks for English through the technique of spectral analysis. We observe that

while the syntactic network has a hierarchical structure with strong communities

and their mixtures, the semantic network has several tightly knit communities along

with a large core without any such well-defined community structure.

In  Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers

Publisher  Association for Computational Linguistics
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