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Identifying hypernyms in distributional semantic spaces

127 Citations2023
Alessandro Lenci, Giulia Benotto

This paper applies existing directional similarity measures to identify hypernyms with a state-of-the-art distributional semantic model and proposes a new directional measure that achieves the best performance in hypernym identification.

Abstract

In this paper we apply existing directional similarity measures to identify hypernyms with a state-of-the-art distributional semantic model. We also propose a new directional measure that achieves the best performance in hypernym identification.