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Local similarity and global variability characterize the semantic space of human languages

2020-02-04

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<p>How does meaning vary across the world’s languages? Scholars recognize the existence of substantial variability within specific domains, ranging from nature and color to kinship. The emergence of large language models enables a systems-level approach that directly characterizes this variability through comparison of word organization across semantic domains. Here we show that meanings across languages manifest...

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f032187d-419c-52a4-a9dd-713fe2e19078
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10.31234/osf.io/f5bvp
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