| Challenge: | a random walk over the WordNet taxonomy generates a set of pseudo-corpora . a resource description paper describes the creation and properties of such pseudo-corporates . |
| Approach: | They propose to use random walk to generate a set of pseudo-corpora over the English WordNet taxonomy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pseudo-corpora can be used to train taxonomic word embeddings . the proposed pseudo corpora are generated from a random walk over the English wordnet taxonomy . |
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