Though observed AN vectors should not be regarded as a gold standard in the sense of, for instance, Machine Learning approaches, because they are typically sparse 10 and thus the vectors of their component adjective and noun will be richer, they are still useful for exploration and as a comparison point for the composition operations (Baroni and Lenci, 2010;Guevara, 2010).
an examination of the nearest neighbors of the composed ANs suggest that alm captures the semantics of adjective composition in this case to a larger extent than mult.