Hypernym Discovery

Hypernymy, namely “is-a” relation, is a vital lexical-semantic relation in natural languages, which relates general terms to their instances or subtypes. In this relation, we name a specific instance or subtype hyponym and its related general term hypernym. For instance, (apple, fruit) is in hypernymy relation, where apple is a hyponym and fruit is one of its hypernyms. Or, for the input word “dog”, some valid hypernyms would be “canine”, “mammal” or “animal”. (See http://aclweb.org/anthology/S18-1116).

Here our objective would be as follows:

Given an input term (or a hyponym \(q\)), our alogrithm need to retrieves a ranked list (possibly of length \(15\)) of its suitable hypernyms (\(h\)) from a large corpus.

\(\rightarrow\) For more details, please refer to the project repo and report.