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A Comprehensive Study of Inappropriate Hierarchy in WordNet

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The Semantic Web – ASWC 2006 (ASWC 2006)

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In WordNet, the lexicalized noun/ verb concepts are organized hierarchically by means of hypernymy. As the most basic semantic relation, hypernymy not only serves to construct the specific hierarchy of the concepts in the domain, but also provides a common way of reasoning along the hierarchy for NLP researchers. However, we’ve found two kinds of inappropriate hierarchy in WordNet, the cases of ring and isolator for short. This paper offers a comprehensive study of these cases and make clear that they can cause a degenerate structure, hence harass the reasoning and eventually lead to errors.

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  1. Institute of Computatinal Linguistics, Peking University, Bejing, 100871, China

    Liu Yang

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  1. The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, 567-0047, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

    Riichiro Mizoguchi

  2. Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing,  

    Zhongzhi Shi

  3. Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Italy

    Fausto Giunchiglia

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Yang, L. (2006). A Comprehensive Study of Inappropriate Hierarchy in WordNet. In: Mizoguchi, R., Shi, Z., Giunchiglia, F. (eds) The Semantic Web – ASWC 2006. ASWC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4185. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11836025_62

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