Semantic Bootstrapping: A Theoretical Perspective

Knowledge acquisition is an iterative process. Most prior work used syntactic bootstrapping approaches, while semantic bootstrapping was proposed recently. Unlike syntactic bootstrapping, semantic bootstrapping bootstraps directly on knowledge rather than on syntactic patterns, that is, it uses exis...

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Main Authors: Wentao Wu, Hongsong Li, Haixun Wang, Zhu, Kenny Q.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithm design and analysis
Conferences
Data engineering
Facebook
Pattern matching
Semantics
Syntactics
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Summary:Knowledge acquisition is an iterative process. Most prior work used syntactic bootstrapping approaches, while semantic bootstrapping was proposed recently. Unlike syntactic bootstrapping, semantic bootstrapping bootstraps directly on knowledge rather than on syntactic patterns, that is, it uses existing knowledge to understand the text and acquire more knowledge. It has been shown that semantic bootstrapping can achieve superb precision while retaining good recall on extracting isA relation. Nonetheless, the working mechanism of semantc bootstrapping remains elusive. In this extended abstract, we present a theoretical analysis as well as an experimental study to provide deeper insights into semantic bootstrapping.
ISSN:2375-026X
DOI:10.1109/ICDE.2017.10