For example, suppose you didn't know the meaning of the word ongchoi (a recent borrowing from Cantonese) but you see it in the following contexts: The fact that ongchoi occurs with words like rice and garlic and delicious and salty, as do words like spinach, chard, and collard greens might suggest that ongchoi is a leafy green similar to these other leafy greens. 1 We can do the same thing computationally by just counting words in the context of ongchoi.