2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/30133We study distributional similarity measures for the purpose of improving probability estimation for unseen cooccurrences. Our contributions are three-fold: an empirical comparison of a broad range of measures; a classification of similarity functions based on the information that they incorporate; and the introduction of a novel function that is superior at evaluating potential proxy distributions.9 pages, 3 figuresComputation and LanguageI.2.7text