Automatic Identification of Basic-Level Categories

• Main Authors: Mills, Chad, Bond, Francis, Levow, Gina-Anne
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Basic-level Categories; WordNet
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88492; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44917; http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg/events/2018-gwc/pdfs/GWC2018_paper_5.pdf
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Basic-level categories have been shown to be both psychologically significant and useful in a wide range of practical applications. We build a rule-based system to identify basic-level categories in WordNet, achieving 77% accuracy on a test set derived from prior psychological experiments. With addi...