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basis of their tendency to co-occur syntactically with the
same words in text---cf. Harper, 1965); other classes contain
words of the same root, synonyms, hypernyms, and words
arbitrarily classified as "concrete." The semantic classi-
fications are highly tentative, and are subject to modifi-
cation. Their extent is shown in Table 2.
Table 2
SEMANTIC DATA
Number of Number of
Classification Classes Words in Class
Distributional Classes 22 150
Hypernym Classes i0 160
Word Families 25 52
Synonym--antonym Classes 16 48
"Concrete" Words I 54
TOTAL 74 464
The language materials described above are punched
on approximately 2500 cards. The data are processed by s
conversion program in order to form the data base for the
paragraph generation program
