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This paper describes a method for extracting hyponyms from free text. In particular it explores two main matters. On the one hand, the possibility of reaching favorable results using only lexical extraction patterns. On the other hand, the usefulness of measuring the instance’s confidences based on the pattern’s confidences, and vice versa. Experimental results are encouraging because they show that the proposed method can be a practical high-precision approach for extracting hyponyms for a given set of concepts.
Work done under partial support of CONACYT (project grants 43990 and 61335).
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Ortega-Mendoza, R.M., Villaseñor-Pineda, L., Montes-y-Gómez, M. (2007). Using Lexical Patterns for Extracting Hyponyms from the Web. In: Gelbukh, A., Kuri Morales, Á.F. (eds) MICAI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. MICAI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4827. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76631-5_86
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