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Are you interested in positional distance or syntactic distance?

E.g., the syntactic distance between "house" and "located" is small in
both examples below whereas the positional distance obviously changes
a lot more.

The house is located in the suburbs.

The house that cost a million and took three years to build is located
in the suburbs.

What is your softawre environment? Do you have access to perl?

Drago

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> Greetings,
> 
> My name is Ashley Sanders-Jackson and I am a graduate student at the
> Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.  I
> am currently working on a project where we are attempting to categorize
> word dyads within a document and determine their proximity (that is, the
> number of words between the first word in the dyad and the second word
> in the dyad) without human coding.  Thus far, we are pretty good at
> categorizing the dyads based on what we are interested in and not so
> good at determining proximity between the words within the dyad itself.
> Is there any piece of software or programming that might assist us in
> this task or are there any articles that I could read that might be
> helpful?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ashley
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