In its current implementation, the World-Wide Web lacks much of the explicit structure and strong typing found in many closed hypertext systems. While this property has directly f...
Fact collections are mostly built using semi-supervised relation extraction techniques and wisdom of the crowds methods, rendering them inherently noisy. In this paper, we propose...
Topological relations between geographic regions are of interest in many applications. When the exact boundaries of regions are not available, such relations can be established by...
Steven Schockaert, Philip D. Smart, Alia I. Abdelm...
Thesauri, that list the most salient semantic relations between words have mostly been compiled manually. Therefore, the inclusion of an entry depends on the subjective decision o...
We present a simple algorithm for clustering semantic patterns based on distributional similarity and use cluster memberships to guide semi-supervised pattern discovery. We apply ...