Taxonomy Construction

Taxonomies are the backbone of many structured, semantic knowledge resources. Recent works for extracting taxonomic relations from text focused on collect- ing lexical-syntactic patterns to extract the taxonomic relations by …...

Taxonomy structures are important tools in the science of classification of things or concepts, including the principles that un- derlie such classification. This paper pre- sents an approach to the …...

We present a system for taxonomy construc- tion that reached the first place in all sub- tasks of the SemEval 2016 challenge on Tax- onomy Extraction Evaluation. Our simple yet …...

AbstractA taxonomy is a semantic hierarchy, consisting of concepts linked by is-a relations. While a large number of taxonomies have been constructed from human-compiled resources (e.g., Wikipedia), learning taxonomies from …...

AbstractEntity set expansion, aiming at expanding a small seed entity set with new entities belonging to the same semantic class, is a critical task that benefits many downstream NLP and …...

AbstractExtracting lexico-semantic relations as graph-structured taxonomies, also known as taxonomy construction, has been beneficial in a variety of NLP applications. Recently Graph Neural Network (GNN) has shown to be powerful …...