Nonlinear Evidence Fusion and Propagation for Hyponymy Relation Mining

Fan Zhang1,  Shuming Shi2,  Jing Liu1,  Shuqi Sun3,  Chin-Yew Lin2
1Nankai University, 2Microsoft Research Asia, 3


Abstract

This paper focuses on mining the hyponymy (or is-a) relation from large-scale, open-domain web documents. A nonlinear probabilistic model is exploited to model the correlation between sentences in the aggregation of pattern matching results. Based on the model, we design a set of evidence combination and propagation algorithms. These significantly improve the result quality of existing approaches. Ex-perimental results conducted on 500 mil-lion web pages and hypernym labels for 300 terms show over 20% performance improvement in terms of P@5, MAP and R-Precision.




Full paper: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P11/P11-1116.pdf