A distributional study of negated adjectives and antonyms. Aina, L., Bernardi, R., & Fernández, R. In Proceedings of the 5th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-IT), 2018.
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In this paper, we investigate the relation between negated adjectives and antonyms in English using Distributional Semantics methods. Results show that, on the basis of contexts of use, a negated adjective (e.g., not cold) is typically more similar to the adjective itself (cold) than to its antonym (hot); such effect is less strong for antonyms derived by affixation (e.g., happy - unhappy).

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