Title
Acquiring concept hierarchies of adjectives from corpora
Abstract
We describe a method to acquire a distribution of the concepts of adjectives automatically by using a self-organizing map and a directional similarity measure. A means of evaluating concept hierarchies of adjectives extracted automatically from corpora is elucidated. We used Scheffe's method of paired comparison to test experimentally the validity of hierarchies thus obtained with human intuition and found that our method was effective for 43% of the hierarchies considered.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11940098_45
ICCPOL
Keywords
Field
DocType
acquiring concept hierarchy,concept hierarchy,human intuition,self-organizing map,directional similarity measure,hierarchies,paired comparison
Similitude,Similarity measure,Computer science,Self-organization,Intuition,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Hierarchy,Scheffé's method
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4285
0302-9743
3-540-49667-X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
11
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kyoko Kanzaki116822.73
Qing Ma291.86
Eiko Yamamoto3248.59
Tamotsu Shirado4145.55
Hitoshi Isahara51267165.21