Challenge: SetExpander is a corpus-based system for expanding a seed set of terms into a more complete set of words belonging to the same semantic class.
Approach: They propose to use a corpus-based system for expanding a seed set of terms into a more complete set of words that belong to the same semantic class.
Outcome: The proposed system can expand a seed set of terms, validate it, re-expand the expanded set and store it, thus simplifying the extraction of domain-specific fine-grained semantic classes.

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