More than a definition of a contextual distance among words ...

[Albretch Mueller]

More than trying to study the usage patterns of an author or how the
meaning of words change/evolve based on its distribution and usage
contexts, say you want to study how a certain concept evolves/changes -
along with its ramifications-. You don't even have to use certain
words in order to directly or indirectly evoke a concept

How can you do that using corpora?

I think there is a term to describe what I mean. Something like
"concept spaces", what was it?

Any -good- studies on "concept spaces" (and please, I do know I can
use google (or was it google can use me) ;-))

Thank you very much
lbrtchx

 

[Tom Willett]

: : Any -good- studies on "concept spaces" (and please, I do know I can
: use google (or was it google can use me) ;-))
:
Then, if you do know you can use google, why aren't you?

 

[Albretch Mueller]

: : Any -good- studies on "concept spaces" (and please, I do know I can
: use google (or was it google can use me) ;-))
:
Then, if you do know you can use google, why aren't you?

~
because I also know google is designed to make certain kinds of
people happy and other kinds waste their time, which apparently you
haven't figured out yet and I hope I was helpful to you on that one
~
lbrtchx

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

But neither your posting nor this response has the slightest thing to
do with Microsoft Word.

Perhaps you're groping toward the fields of "historical lexicography"
or "corpus linguistics."