This article explores a statistical, language-independent methodology for the construction of
taxonomies of specialized domains from noisy corpora. In contrast to proposals that exploit …

This paper presents a procedure to construct robust taxonomies from natural language
German encyclopedic text. Taxonomic relations are extracted through Hearst patterns …

Questionnaires constitute a crucial tool in linguistic typology and language description. By
nature, a Questionnaire is both an instrument and a result of typological work: its purpose is …

This paper describes the second edition of the shared task on Taxonomy Extraction
Evaluation organised as part of SemEval 2016. This task aims to extract hypernym-hyponym …

We introduce ExTaSem!, a novel approach for the automatic learning of lexical taxonomies
from domain terminologies. First, we exploit a very large semantic network to collect …

This article discusses a corpus-based method for the automatic identification of synonyms
across different varieties of the same language. This method, based on the paradigm of …

Identifying hypernyms in distributional semantic spaces Page 1 First Joint Conference on
Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), pages 75–79, Montréal, Canada, June 7-8 …

This paper introduces three algorithms for the extraction of lexical and grammatical markers
in parallel texts. The starting point for all of them is that trigger distributions are used as …

Languages are not uniform. Speakers of different language varieties use certain words
differently–more or less frequently, or with different meanings. We argue that distributional …

Taxonomy is indispensable in understanding natural language. A variety of large scale,
usage-based, data-driven lexical taxonomies have been constructed in recent years …