| Challenge: | Ontologies, taxonomies and thesauri are used in many NLP tasks but are often not maintained. |
| Approach: | They propose methods for taxonomy enrichment in a resource-poor setting . they also create novel datasets for training and evaluating taxonomies . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods are applicable to English and Russian datasets and can be used in other languages. |
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