What is this, anyway: Automatic hypernym discovery

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn SS-09-07, Issue , 2009, Pages 88-93

  Ritter, Alan ^a   Soderland, Stephen ^a   Etzioni, Oren ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH PRECISION; HYPERNYMS; LEXICAL PATTERNS; LEXICAL RESOURCES; NOUN PHRASE; NOVEL METHODS; PRECISION AND RECALL; PROPER NOUNS; SEMANTIC CLASS; WORDNET;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB;

EDUCATION;

EID: 70350543748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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