<s>
Distributionalism	B-General_Concept
was	O
a	O
general	O
theory	O
of	O
language	O
and	O
a	O
discovery	O
procedure	O
for	O
establishing	O
elements	O
and	O
structures	O
of	O
language	O
based	O
on	O
observed	O
usage	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Current	O
computational	O
approaches	O
to	O
learn	O
the	O
semantics	O
of	O
words	O
from	O
text	O
in	O
the	O
form	O
of	O
word	B-General_Concept
embeddings	I-General_Concept
using	O
machine	O
learning	O
are	O
based	O
on	O
distributional	O
theory	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Distributionalism	B-General_Concept
can	O
be	O
said	O
to	O
have	O
originated	O
in	O
the	O
work	O
of	O
structuralist	O
linguist	O
Leonard	O
Bloomfield	O
and	O
was	O
more	O
clearly	O
formalised	O
by	O
Zellig	O
S	O
.	O
Harris	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
Turenne	O
and	O
Pomerol	O
,	O
distributionalism	B-General_Concept
was	O
in	O
fact	O
a	O
second	O
phase	O
in	O
the	O
history	O
of	O
linguistics	O
,	O
following	O
that	O
of	O
structuralism	O
,	O
as	O
distributionalism	B-General_Concept
was	O
mainly	O
dominant	O
since	O
1935	O
to	O
1960	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Distributionalism	B-General_Concept
has	O
much	O
in	O
common	O
with	O
structuralism	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Behaviorist	O
psychological	O
theories	O
which	O
allowed	O
the	O
birth	O
of	O
distributionalism	B-General_Concept
are	O
reminiscent	O
of	O
Pavlov	O
's	O
work	O
on	O
animals	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
notions	O
of	O
"	O
mechanism	O
"	O
,	O
"	O
inductive	O
method	O
"	O
and	O
"	O
corpus	O
"	O
are	O
key	O
terms	O
of	O
distributionalism	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
main	O
idea	O
of	O
distributionalism	B-General_Concept
is	O
that	O
linguistic	O
units	O
"	O
are	O
what	O
they	O
do	O
"	O
,	O
which	O
means	O
that	O
the	O
identity	O
of	O
linguistic	O
units	O
are	O
defined	O
by	O
their	O
distribution	O
.	O
</s>
