Distributive semantics
SentiSquare NLP technology is based on distributive semantics. This approach allows us understand the meaning of the text without human supervision. The basic principle is: “The word is characterized by the society in which it occurs” (Firth, 1957).
Words have a similar meaning when they occur in similar contexts. Thanks to this, we can quantify the meaning of words: text can be expressed as a vector in a semantic space with a high dimension, which contains information about the distribution of words across contexts (hence the term distributive semantics comes from).