SemEval-2016 Task 13: Taxonomy Extraction Evaluation (TExEval-2)

View/ Open
Date
2016-06-16Author
Bordea, Georgeta
Lefever, Els
Buitelaar, Paul
Metadata
Show full item recordUsage
This item's downloads: 868 (view details)
Recommended Citation
Bordea, Georgeta; Lefever, Els; Buitelaar, Paul (2016) SemEval-2016 Task 13: Taxonomy Extraction Evaluation (TExEval-2) Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016) San Diego, California,
Published Version
Abstract
This paper describes the second edition of the shared task on Taxonomy Extraction Evaluation organised as part of SemEval 2016. This task aims to extract hypernym-hyponym relations between a given list of domain-specific terms and then to construct a domain taxonomy based on them. TExEval-2 introduced a multilingual setting for this task, covering four different languages including English, Dutch, Italian and French from domains as diverse as environment, food and science. A total of
62 runs submitted by 5 different teams were
evaluated using structural measures, by comparison with gold standard taxonomies and by manual quality assessment of novel relations.