Extraction of Hyponymic Relations in French with Knowledge-Pattern-Based Word Sketches (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Hyponymy is the cornerstone of taxonomies and concept hierarchies. |
| Approach: | They propose a French hyponymic sketch grammar for Sketch Engine based on knowledge patterns. |
| Outcome: | The proposed grammar extracts hyponymic pairs from any user-owned corpus. |
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