The contexts in which a target word appears can be extracted in terms of a window of cooccurring (content) words surrounding the target (Freitag et al., 2005; Ferret, 2012; Erk and Pado, 2010) or in terms of the syntactic dependencies in which the target appears<cite> (Lin, 1998</cite>; McCarthy et al., 2003; Weeds et al., 2004) .