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  <Title>NEASURENENT OF SI~IILARITY I~ETWI!EN NOUNS</Title>
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4. CONCLUS IONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We conclude that there is considerable agreement between the results of our experiment and an a priori feeling for the similarity of words. Words that are similar in meaning tend to have the same SRI',' t to a far greater degree than chance would determine. If this conclusion is valid, a large-scale experiment is suggested, using a larger number of Test Words, more SRW types, and a larger t la rper 2 0 amount of text. (The text base for tile present experiment proved to be adequate; larger amounts of text should, however, remove some of the anomalies.) The question of further refinements in the procedure must also be taken seriously: e.g., we may also take into account multiple occurrences of an SRW, distinguish to some degree the different functions of noun governors or noun dependents, discount the occurrence of &amp;quot;promiscuous&amp;quot; SRIV. (:lumping procedures should be applied, perhaps taking into account the recurrence of individual SRW among a group of Test Words.</Paragraph>
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