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  <Title>Measures of Distributional Similarity</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We study distributional similarity measures for the purpose of improving probability estimation for unseen cooccurrences. Our contributions are three-fold: an empirical comparison of a broad range of measures; a classification of similarity functions based on the information that they incorporate; and the introduction of a novel function that is superior at evaluating potential proxy distributions.</Paragraph>
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