@InProceedings{boleda-gupta-pado:2017:EACLshort,
  author    = {Boleda, Gemma  and  Gupta, Abhijeet  and  Pad\'{o}, Sebastian},
  title     = {Instances and concepts in distributional space},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers},
  month     = {April},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Valencia, Spain},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {79--85},
  abstract  = {Instances (``Mozart'') are ontologically distinct from concepts or classes
	(``composer''). Natural language encompasses both, but instances have received
	comparatively little attention in distributional semantics. Our results show
	that instances and concepts differ in their distributional properties. We also
	establish that instantiation detection (``Mozart -- composer'') is generally
	easier than hypernymy detection (``chemist -- scientist''), and that results on
	the influence of input representation do not transfer from hyponymy to
	instantiation.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E17-2013}
}