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Common techniques for acquiring semantic relations rely on static domain and linguistic resources, predefined patterns, and the presence of syntactic cues. We propose a hybrid approach which brings together established and novel techniques in lexical simplification, word disambiguation and association inference for acquiring coarse-grained relations between potentially ambiguous and composite terms using only dynamic Web resources. Our experiments using terms from two different domains demonstrate potential preliminary results.
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Wong, W., Liu, W., Bennamoun, M. (2009). Acquiring Semantic Relations Using the Web for Constructing Lightweight Ontologies. In: Theeramunkong, T., Kijsirikul, B., Cercone, N., Ho, TB. (eds) Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. PAKDD 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5476. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01307-2_26
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