Abstract
The acquisition of explicit semantics is still a research challenge. Approaches for the extraction of semantics focus mostly on learning hierarchical hypernym-hyponym relations. The extraction of co-hyponym and co-meronym sibling semantics is performed to a much lesser extent, though they are not less important in ontology engineering.
In this paper we will describe and evaluate the XTREEM-SG (Xhtml TREE Mining – for Sibling Groups) approach on finding sibling semantics from semi-structured Web documents. XTREEM takes advantage of the added value of mark-up, available in web content, for grouping text siblings. We will show that this grouping is semantically meaningful. The XTREEM-SG approach has the advantage that it is domain and language independent; it does not rely on background knowledge, NLP software or training.
In this paper we apply the XTREEM-SG approach and evaluate against the reference semantics from two golden standard ontologies. We investigate how variations on input, parameters and reference influence the obtained results on structuring a closed vocabulary on sibling relations. Earlier methods that evaluate sibling relations against a golden standard report a 14.18% F-measure value. Our method improves this number into 21.47%.
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Brunzel, M., Spiliopoulou, M. (2006). Discovering Semantic Sibling Groups from Web Documents with XTREEM-SG. In: Staab, S., Svátek, V. (eds) Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks. EKAW 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4248. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11891451_15
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