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Taxonomy learning is a prerequisite step for ontology learning. In order to create a taxonomy, first of all, existing ‘is-a’ relations between words should be extracted. A known way to extract ‘is-a’ relations is finding lexicosyntactic patterns in large text corpus. Although this approach produces results with high precision but it suffers from low values of recall. Furthermore developing a comprehensive set of patterns is tedious and cumbersome. In this paper, firstly, we introduce an approach for developing lexico-syntactic patterns automatically using the snippets of search engine results and then, challenge the law recall of this approach using a combined model, which is based on cooccurrence of pair words in the web and neural network classifier. Using our approach both precision and recall of extracted ‘is-a’ relations improved and FMeasure value reaches 0.72.
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Neshati, M., Abolhassani, H., Fatemi, H. (2008). Automatic Extraction of IS-A Relations in Taxonomy Learning. In: Sarbazi-Azad, H., Parhami, B., Miremadi, SG., Hessabi, S. (eds) Advances in Computer Science and Engineering. CSICC 2008. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89985-3_3
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