A Short Survey on Taxonomy Learning from Text Corpora: Issues, Resources and Recent Advances

Chengyu Wang, Xiaofeng He, Aoying Zhou


Abstract
A 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 text corpora has received a growing interest and is essential for long-tailed and domain-specific knowledge acquisition. In this paper, we overview recent advances on taxonomy construction from free texts, reorganizing relevant subtasks into a complete framework. We also overview resources for evaluation and discuss challenges for future research.
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D17-1123
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Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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September
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2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1190–1203
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https://aclanthology.org/D17-1123
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D17-1123
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Chengyu Wang, Xiaofeng He, and Aoying Zhou. 2017. A Short Survey on Taxonomy Learning from Text Corpora: Issues, Resources and Recent Advances. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1190–1203, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Short Survey on Taxonomy Learning from Text Corpora: Issues, Resources and Recent Advances (Wang et al., EMNLP 2017)
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