# Church 2000: Empirical estimates of adaptation: the chance of two noriegas is closer to p/2 than p2

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# Empirical estimates of adaptation: the chance of two noriegas is closer to p/2 than p2

Kenneth W. Church, 2000. _Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics -_.

Measures how much a word's first appearance in a document raises the chance it appears again, finding a second mention far likelier than independence predicts and the effect strongest for content words.

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The inductive-methods survey proposes ranking words by this adaptation to find candidate topic words without labels.

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Church, K. W. (2000). Empirical estimates of adaptation: the chance of two noriegas is closer to p/2 than p2. Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics -. https://doi.org/10.3115/990820.990847
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