<s>
In	O
linguistics	O
,	O
statistical	B-General_Concept
semantics	I-General_Concept
applies	O
the	O
methods	O
of	O
statistics	O
to	O
the	O
problem	O
of	O
determining	O
the	O
meaning	O
of	O
words	O
or	O
phrases	O
,	O
ideally	O
through	O
unsupervised	B-General_Concept
learning	I-General_Concept
,	O
to	O
a	O
degree	O
of	O
precision	O
at	O
least	O
sufficient	O
for	O
the	O
purpose	O
of	O
information	B-Library
retrieval	I-Library
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
term	O
statistical	B-General_Concept
semantics	I-General_Concept
was	O
first	O
used	O
by	O
Warren	O
Weaver	O
in	O
his	O
well-known	O
paper	O
on	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
argued	O
that	O
word	B-General_Concept
sense	I-General_Concept
disambiguation	I-General_Concept
for	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
should	O
be	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
co-occurrence	O
frequency	O
of	O
the	O
context	O
words	O
near	O
a	O
given	O
target	O
word	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Emile	O
Delavenay	O
defined	O
statistical	B-General_Concept
semantics	I-General_Concept
as	O
the	O
"	O
statistical	O
study	O
of	O
meanings	O
of	O
words	O
and	O
their	O
frequency	O
and	O
order	O
of	O
recurrence	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
1983	O
"	O
is	O
frequently	O
cited	O
as	O
a	O
foundational	O
contribution	O
to	O
statistical	B-General_Concept
semantics	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Research	O
in	O
statistical	B-General_Concept
semantics	I-General_Concept
has	O
resulted	O
in	O
a	O
wide	O
variety	O
of	O
algorithms	O
that	O
use	O
the	O
distributional	O
hypothesis	O
to	O
discover	O
many	O
aspects	O
of	O
semantics	B-Application
,	O
by	O
applying	O
statistical	O
techniques	O
to	O
large	O
corpora	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Statistical	B-General_Concept
semantics	I-General_Concept
focuses	O
on	O
the	O
meanings	O
of	O
common	O
words	O
and	O
the	O
relations	O
between	O
common	O
words	O
,	O
unlike	O
text	B-Algorithm
mining	I-Algorithm
,	O
which	O
tends	O
to	O
focus	O
on	O
whole	O
documents	O
,	O
document	O
collections	O
,	O
or	O
named	O
entities	O
(	O
names	O
of	O
people	O
,	O
places	O
,	O
and	O
organizations	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Statistical	B-General_Concept
semantics	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
subfield	O
of	O
computational	B-General_Concept
semantics	I-General_Concept
,	O
which	O
is	O
in	O
turn	O
a	O
subfield	O
of	O
computational	O
linguistics	O
and	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
of	O
the	O
applications	O
of	O
statistical	B-General_Concept
semantics	I-General_Concept
(	O
listed	O
above	O
)	O
can	O
also	O
be	O
addressed	O
by	O
lexicon-based	O
algorithms	O
,	O
instead	O
of	O
the	O
corpus-based	O
algorithms	O
of	O
statistical	B-General_Concept
semantics	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
advantage	O
of	O
corpus-based	O
algorithms	O
is	O
that	O
they	O
are	O
typically	O
not	O
as	O
labour-intensive	O
as	O
lexicon-based	O
algorithms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
social	O
media	O
than	O
lexicon-based	O
algorithms	O
are	O
.	O
</s>
