Title
Tarantula -> Spider -> Animal: Second Level Hypernymy Discovery Based On Distributional Similarity Methods
Abstract
Automatic hypernymy discovery continues to present challenges for natural language processing. Polysemous nouns are linked to more than one hypernym and can therefore cause structural damage on a lexical taxonomy. For instance, the Spanish noun tarantula ('tarantula') is a hyponym of arana ('spider'), but this is also a polysemous noun, as it means 'chandelier' as well. It is thus necessary to determine the next hypernym in the chain, that is animal ('animal') or artefacto ('artifact'). In this paper we explore methods to solve this problem using a similarity measure that uses verb-noun co-occurrence as a predictor variable. Best results (84% success) are obtained with a simple method that only measures co-occurrence, irrespective of any syntactic information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.26342/2020-64-3
PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL
Keywords
DocType
Volume
distributional similarity, hypernymy, polysemy, taxonomy
Journal
64
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
64
1135-5948
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rogelio Nazar1105.30
Javier Obreque200.34
Irene Renau302.03