Learning Verbs on the Fly
Zornitsa Kozareva · 2012
To answer the question “What are the duties of a medical doctor?”, one would require knowledge about verb-based relations. A lot of effort has been invested in developing relation learners, however to our knowledge there is no repository (or system) which can return all verb relations for a given term. This paper describes an automated procedure which can learn and produce such information with minimal effort. To evaluate the performance of our verb harvesting procedure, we have conducted two types of evaluations: (1) in the human based evaluation we found that the accuracy of the described algorithm is.95 at rank 100; (2) in the comparative study with existing relation learner and knowledge bases we found that our approach yields 12 times more verb relations.