The distributional inclusion hypotheses and lexical entailment

Maayan Geffet; Ido Dagan

doi:10.3115/1219840.1219854

The distributional inclusion hypotheses and lexical entailment

Maayan Geffet, Ido Dagan

Department of Computer Science

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Abstract

This paper suggests refinements for the Distributional Similarity Hypothesis. Our proposed hypotheses relate the distributional behavior of pairs of words to lexical entailment - a tighter notion of semantic similarity that is required by many NLP applications. To automatically explore the validity of the defined hypotheses we developed an inclusion testing algorithm for characteristic features of two words, which incorporates corpus and web-based feature sampling to overcome data sparseness. The degree of hypotheses validity was then empirically tested and manually analyzed with respect to the word sense level. In addition, the above testing algorithm was exploited to improve lexical entailment acquisition.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ACL-05 - 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	107-114
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	1932432515, 9781932432510
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3115/1219840.1219854
State	Published - 2005
Event	43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL-05 - Ann Arbor, MI, United States Duration: 25 Jun 2005 → 30 Jun 2005

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Name	ACL-05 - 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

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Conference	43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL-05
Country/Territory	United States
City	Ann Arbor, MI
Period	25/06/05 → 30/06/05

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Geffet, M., & Dagan, I. (2005). The distributional inclusion hypotheses and lexical entailment. In ACL-05 - 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 107-114). (ACL-05 - 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.3115/1219840.1219854

Geffet, Maayan ; Dagan, Ido. / The distributional inclusion hypotheses and lexical entailment. ACL-05 - 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2005. pp. 107-114 (ACL-05 - 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference).

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Geffet M, Dagan I. The distributional inclusion hypotheses and lexical entailment. In ACL-05 - 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2005. p. 107-114. (ACL-05 - 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference). doi: 10.3115/1219840.1219854

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