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Using LSA and noun coordination information to improve the precision and recall of automatic hyponymy extraction

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Scott Cederberg,

Dominic WiddowsAuthors Info & Claims

CONLL '03: Proceedings of the seventh conference on Natural language learning at HLT-NAACL 2003 - Volume 4

Pages 111 - 118

https://doi.org/10.3115/1119176.1119191

Published: 31 May 2003 Publication History

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In this paper we demonstrate methods of improving both the recall and the precision of automatic methods for extraction of hyponymy (IS_A) relations from free text. By applying latent semantic analysis (LSA) to filter extracted hyponymy relations we reduce the rate of error of our initial pattern-based hyponymy extraction by 30%, achieving precision of 58%. Applying a graph-based model of noun-noun similarity learned automatically from coordination patterns to previously extracted correct hyponymy relations, we achieve roughly a five-fold increase in the number of correct hyponymy relations extracted.

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CONLL '03: Proceedings of the seventh conference on Natural language learning at HLT-NAACL 2003 - Volume 4

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University of Antwerp and Tilburg University
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University of Edinburgh

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