@inproceedings{cao-etal-2025-distinctive,
    title = "On the Distinctive Co-occurrence Characteristics of Antonymy",
    author = "Cao, Zhihan  and
      Yamada, Hiroaki  and
      Tokunaga, Takenobu",
    editor = "Frermann, Lea  and
      Stevenson, Mark",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.starsem-1.10/",
    pages = "134--141",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-340-1",
    abstract = "Antonymy has long received particular attention in lexical semantics.Previous studies have shown that antonym pairs frequently co-occur in text, across genres and parts of speech, more often than would be expected by chance. However, whether this co-occurrence pattern is distinctive of antonymy remains unclear, due to a lack of comparison with other semantic relations. This work fills the gap by comparing antonymy with three other relations across parts of speech using robust co-occurrence metrics. We find that antonymy is distinctive in three respects: antonym pairs co-occur with high strength, in a preferred linear order, and within short spans. All results are available online."
}