Identifying hypernyms in distributional semantic spaces

Authors:
Alessandro Lenci;Giulia Benotto
Affiliations:
University of Pisa, S. Maria, Pisa, Italy;University of Pisa, S. Maria, Pisa, Italy
Venue:
SemEval '12 Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In this paper we apply existing directional similarity measures to identify hypernyms with a state-of-the-art distributional semantic model. We also propose a new directional measure that achieves the best performance in hypernym identification.