Hearst Patterns Revisited: Automatic Hypernym Detection from Large Text Corpora

Stephen Roller, Douwe Kiela, Maximilian Nickel


Abstract
Methods for unsupervised hypernym detection may broadly be categorized according to two paradigms: pattern-based and distributional methods. In this paper, we study the performance of both approaches on several hypernymy tasks and find that simple pattern-based methods consistently outperform distributional methods on common benchmark datasets. Our results show that pattern-based models provide important contextual constraints which are not yet captured in distributional methods.
Anthology ID:
P18-2057
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
Address:
Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao
Venue:
ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
358–363
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-2057
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-2057
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Cite (ACL):
Stephen Roller, Douwe Kiela, and Maximilian Nickel. 2018. Hearst Patterns Revisited: Automatic Hypernym Detection from Large Text Corpora. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 358–363, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Hearst Patterns Revisited: Automatic Hypernym Detection from Large Text Corpora (Roller et al., ACL 2018)
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https://aclanthology.org/P18-2057.pdf
Presentation:
 P18-2057.Presentation.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/P18-2057.mp4
Code
 facebookresearch/hypernymysuite +  additional community code
Data
HyperLex