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- (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.
Subject Headings: Relation Recognition, Lexical Acquisition, Hearst Lexical Pattern.
Notes
- It proposes the use of the English lexical pattern (Hearst pattern). “X such as Y”.
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Abstract
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. We describe a method for discovering these patterns and suggest that other lexical relations will also be acquirable in this way. A subset of the acquisition algorithm is implemented and the results are used to augment and critique the structure of a large hand-built thesaurus. Extensions and applications to areas such as information retrieval are suggested.
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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 1992 AutomaticHyponymAcquisition | Marti Hearst | Automatic Acquisition of Hyponyms from Large Text Corpora | Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics | http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hearst/papers/coling92.pdf | 10.3115/992133.992154 | 1992 |