Hierarchical Concept Geometry in Language Models Emerges from Word Co-occurrence

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We propose a distributional theory of how hypernymy -- the ``is-a'' relation between general and specific concepts -- is encoded geometrically in language representations. Starting from the empirically verified assumption that words closer on the WordNet hypernym graph co-occur more often, we cha...