Co-occurrence

Co-occurrence can either mean concurrence / coincidence or, in a more specific sense, the above-chance frequent occurrence of two terms from a text corpus alongside each other in a certain order. Co-occurrence in this linguistic sense can be interpreted as an indicator of semantic proximity or an idiomatic expression. In contrast to collocation, co-occurrence assumes interdependency of the two terms.

See also

• Correlation
• Distributional hypothesis
• Statistical semantics
• Co-occurrence matrix
• Co-occurrence networks

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