A short survey on taxonomy learning from text corpora: Issues, resources and recent advances

Chengyu Wang, Xiaofeng He, Aoying Zhou

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Abstract

A taxonomy is a semantic hierarchy, consisting of concepts linked by is-a relations. While a large number of taxonomies have been constructed from human-compiled resources (e.g., Wikipedia), learning taxonomies from text corpora has received a growing interest and is essential for long-tailed and domain-specific knowledge acquisition. In this paper, we overview recent advances on taxonomy construction from free texts, reorganizing relevant subtasks into a complete framework. We also overview resources for evaluation and discuss challenges for future research.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEMNLP 2017 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages1190-1203
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9781945626838
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2017 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 9 Sep 201711 Sep 2017

Publication series

NameEMNLP 2017 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings

Conference

Conference2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2017
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period9/09/1711/09/17

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