Hearst Lexical Pattern

A Hearst Lexical Pattern is a lexical pattern initially proposed in (Hearst, 1992).

• Example(s):
  • “X such as Y, and Z”
• See: Lexico-Syntactic Pattern, Relation Recognition Mention Model.

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References

1992

• (Hearst, 1992) ⇒ Marti Hearst. (1992). “Automatic Acquisition of Hyponyms from Large Text Corpora.” In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-1992). doi:10.3115/992133.992154.
  • QUOTE: We describe a method for the automatic acquisition of the hyponymy lexical relation from unrestricted text. Two goals motivate the approach: (i) avoidance of the need for pre-encoded knowledge and (ii) applicability across a wide range of text. We identify a set of lexicosyntactic patterns that are easily recognizable, that occur frequently and across text genre boundaries, and that indisputably indicate the lexical relation of interest.

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