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You shall know a word by the company it keeps — so choose your prompts wisely

In computational linguistics, word meanings are shaped by their contexts. As the British linguist John Rupert Firth put it in 1957, ‘You shall know a word by the company it keeps’ (see Brunila & LaViolette, 2022, for a re-examination of the intellectual history). It sounds almost like life advice, but Firth meant something ...