Deftor at SemEval 2016 Task 14: Taxonomy enrichment using definition vectors
In this paper we describe the participation of the Joint Research Centre, EC, in task 14 Semantic Taxonomy Enrichment at SemEval 2016. The algorithm which we propose transforms each candidate definition into a term vector, where each dimension represents a term and its value is calculated by TF.IDF. We attach the candidate term as a hyponym to the WordNet synset with the most similar definition. The results we obtained are encouraging, considering the simplicity of our approach. The obtained F measure is below the average, but above one of the baselines.
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