| Challenge: | In this paper, we present a collection of hypernymy relations extracted from the Wikipedia corpus in five languages. |
| Approach: | They present a collection of hypernymy relations extracted from the Wikipedia corpus in five languages . they use existing or newly defined lexico-syntactic patterns to extract hyperniyms . |
| Outcome: | The proposed tool is based on a dictionary extracted from the full Wikipedia corpus. |
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