Joseph Renner

WordNet Is All You Need: A Surprisingly Effective Unsupervised Method for Graded Lexical Entailment

We propose a simple unsupervised approach which exclusively relies on WordNet (Miller,1995) for predicting graded lexical entailment (GLE) in English. Inspired by the seminal work of Resnik (1995), our method models GLE as the sum of two information-theoretic scores: a symmetric semantic similarity…