Seed Set

A Seed Set is a set of seed items.

• Context:
  • It can be a task input to a weakly-supervised learning task.
  • It can (typically) contain only positive examples.
• See: Entity Seed Set, Rule Seed Set, Graph Node Seed Set, Named Entity Seed Set, Small Training Set.

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References

2009

• (Pantel et al., 2009) ⇒ Patrick Pantel, Eric Crestan, Arkady Borkovsky, Ana-Maria Popescu, and Vishnu Vyas. (2009). “Web-Scale Distributional Similarity and Entity Set Expansion.” In: Proceedings of EMNLP Conference (EMNLP 2009).
  • QUOTE: Given a set of seed entities ...

2007

• (Sarmento et al., 2007) ⇒ Luis Sarmento, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke, Eugenio Oliveira. (2007). “"More like these": Growing entity classes from seeds.” In: Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management (CIKM 2007). doi:10.1145/1321440.1321585
  • QUOTE: ... method that uses a small seed set obtained from the user and “grows” those seeds into sets of ..

2006

• (Kim & Baldwin, 2006) ⇒ Su Nam Kim, and Timothy Baldwin. (2006). “Interpreting Semantic Relations in Noun Compounds via Verb Semantics.” In: Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions (COLING-ACL 2006). http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1273137
  • QUOTE: ... we map verb tokens in sentential contexts to a fixed set of seed verbs using ...

2004

• (Abney, 2004) ⇒ Steven P. Abney. (2004). “Understanding the Yarowsky Algorithm." Computational Linguistics. 30(3)
  • QUOTE: The “outer loop” is given a seed set of rules to start with. ...

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