Bootstrapping Semantic Lexicons for Technical Domains
Patrick Ziering, Lonneke van der Plas, Hinrich Schütze · 2013
We address the task of bootstrapping a semantic lexicon from a list of seed terms and a large corpus. By restricting to a small subset of semantically strong patterns, i.e., coordinations, we improve results significantly. We show that the restriction to coordinations has several additional benefits, such as improved extraction of multiword expressions, and the possibility to scale up previous efforts. 1