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300-sparsans at SemEval-2018 Task 9: Hypernymy as interaction of sparse attributes

1 Jun 2018SEMEVAL 2018 6archive 2025-07-28

G{\'a}bor Berend, M{\'a}rton Makrai, P{\'e}ter F{\"o}ldi{\'a}k

This paper describes 300-sparsians{'}s participation in SemEval-2018 Task 9: Hypernym Discovery, with a system based on sparse coding and a formal concept hierarchy obtained from word embeddings. Our system took first place in subtasks (1B) Italian (all and entities), (1C) Spanish entities, and (2B) music entities.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Hypernym Discovery General 300-sparsans MAP 8.95 #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Hypernym Discovery General 300-sparsans MRR 19.44 #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Hypernym Discovery General 300-sparsans P@5 8.63 #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Hypernym Discovery Medical domain 300-sparsans MAP 20.75 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Hypernym Discovery Medical domain 300-sparsans MRR 40.60 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Hypernym Discovery Medical domain 300-sparsans P@5 21.43 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Hypernym Discovery Music domain 300-sparsans MAP 29.54 #3 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Hypernym Discovery Music domain 300-sparsans MRR 46.43 #3 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Hypernym Discovery Music domain 300-sparsans P@5 28.86 #3 of 7 Archive leaderboard report

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