If a word is defined on the basis of its co-occurrence with another word class in texts, then its ranking distribution may be modelled well by the negative-hypergeometric probability distribution, and the interaction of the two classes can be described by the same type of model as well as with the help of some procedures, such as the non-linear regression. Possessive adjectives and their head nouns in a Czech corpus are taken to demonstrate those properties.
Volume: 2, 03/2002
Pages: 1-10