KIND: A project for the automatic induction of lexical taxonomies
Keywords:
automatic induction of lexical taxonomies, hypernym relations, hypernymy discovery, computational lexicography, lexical semanticsAbstract
This paper presents a description of the Kind Project, an algorithm for automatic induction of lexical taxonomies from corpora. Taxonomy induction consists of the discovery of hypernymy relations between single or multiword noun pairs, and the integration of these pairs into larger structures. The proposed methodology is fundamentally statistical and the requirement of linguistic resources is minimal, a characteristic that facilitates the reproduction of experiments in different languages. The languages for which results have been obtained so far are Spanish, English and French. The implementation of the algorithm and an online demo are available as open source on the projects’ website.
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