IJCoL (Dec 2018)

Refining the Distributional Inclusion Hypothesis for Unsupervised Hypernym Identification

  • Ludovica Pannitto,
  • Lavinia Salicchi,
  • Alessandro Lenci

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4000/ijcol.506
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 2
pp. 45 – 55

Abstract

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Several unsupervised methods for hypernym detection have been investigated in distributional semantics. Here we present a new approach based on a smoothed version of the distributional inclusion hypothesis. The new method is able to improve hypernym detection after testing on the BLESS dataset.