Syntax is from Mars while Semantics from Venus! Insights from Spectral Analysis of Distributional Similarity Networks
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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 welldefined community structure.
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