EVALUATING THE HYPONYM ATTACHMENTS IN AN UNSUPERVISED TAXONOMY ENRICHMENT FRAMEWORK

Emil Şt. Chifu, Viorica R. Chifu

2008

Abstract

The paper describes an unsupervised framework for domain taxonomy enrichment with new domain-specific concepts extracted from domain text corpora. The framework is based on an extended model of hierarchical self-organizing maps. Terms extracted by mining a text corpus encode contextual content information, in a distributional vector space. The enrichment behaves like a classification of the extracted terms into the existing taxonomy by attaching them as hyponyms for the intermediate and leaf nodes of the taxonomy. We propose an evaluation setting in which we assess the power of attraction of the population of terms towards the branches of the taxonomy (recall) and the precision of attaching correct hyponyms (accuracy).

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Şt. Chifu E. and R. Chifu V. (2008). EVALUATING THE HYPONYM ATTACHMENTS IN AN UNSUPERVISED TAXONOMY ENRICHMENT FRAMEWORK . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-27-2, pages 247-252. DOI: 10.5220/0001529302470252


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist08,
author={Emil Şt. Chifu and Viorica R. Chifu},
title={EVALUATING THE HYPONYM ATTACHMENTS IN AN UNSUPERVISED TAXONOMY ENRICHMENT FRAMEWORK},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2008},
pages={247-252},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001529302470252},
isbn={978-989-8111-27-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - EVALUATING THE HYPONYM ATTACHMENTS IN AN UNSUPERVISED TAXONOMY ENRICHMENT FRAMEWORK
SN - 978-989-8111-27-2
AU - Şt. Chifu E.
AU - R. Chifu V.
PY - 2008
SP - 247
EP - 252
DO - 10.5220/0001529302470252