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Taxonomies are important knowledge ontologies that underpin numerous applications on a daily basis, but many taxonomies used in practice suffer from the low coverage issue. We study the taxonomy expansion problem, which aims to expand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Yue Yu , Yinghao Li , Jiaming Shen , Hao Feng , Jimeng Sun , Chao Zhang

Taxonomies consist of machine-interpretable semantics and provide valuable knowledge for many web applications. For example, online retailers (e.g., Amazon and eBay) use taxonomies for product recommendation, and web search engines (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Jiaming Shen , Zhihong Shen , Chenyan Xiong , Chi Wang , Kuansan Wang , Jiawei Han

We study the problem of automatically building hypernym taxonomies from textual and visual data. Previous works in taxonomy induction generally ignore the increasingly prominent visual data, which encode important perceptual semantics.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Hao Zhang , Zhiting Hu , Yuntian Deng , Mrinmaya Sachan , Zhicheng Yan , Eric P. Xing

Concept Induction refers to the problem of creating complex Description Logic class descriptions (i.e., TBox axioms) from instance examples (i.e., ABox data). In this paper we look particularly at the case where both a set of positive and a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Md Kamruzzaman Sarker , Pascal Hitzler

A key challenge in the legal domain is the adaptation and representation of the legal knowledge expressed through texts, in order for legal practitioners and researchers to access this information easier and faster to help with compliance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Cécile Robin , James O'Neill , Paul Buitelaar

Domain-specific synonyms occur in many specialized search tasks, such as when searching medical documents, legal documents, and software engineering artifacts. We replicate prior work on ranking domain-specific synonyms in the consumer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Andrew Yates , Michael Unterkalmsteiner

Collections of research article data harvested from the web have become common recently since they are important resources for experimenting on tasks such as named entity recognition, text summarization, or keyword generation. In fact,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Erion Çano , Benjamin Roth

Taxonomies are semantic hierarchies of concepts. One limitation of current taxonomy learning systems is that they define concepts as single words. This position paper argues that contextualized word representations, which recently achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Lukas Schmelzeisen , Steffen Staab

Reasoning on large and complex real-world models is a computationally difficult task, yet one that is required for effective use of many AI applications. A plethora of inference algorithms have been developed that work well on specific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Avi Pfeffer , Brian Ruttenberg , William Kretschmer

Text classification with hierarchical labels is a prevalent and challenging task in natural language processing. Examples include assigning ICD codes to patient records, tagging patents into IPC classes, assigning EUROVOC descriptors to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Nan Li , Bo Kang , Tijl De Bie

It is very costly to build up lexical resources and domain ontologies. Especially when confronted with a new application domain lexical gaps and a poor coverage of domain concepts are a problem for the successful exploitation of natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dietmar Roesner , Manuela Kunze

Incremental computations attempt to exploit input similarities over time, reusing work that is unaffected by input changes. To maximize this reuse in a general-purpose programming setting, programmers need a mechanism to identify dynamic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Matthew A. Hammer , Jana Dunfield , Kyle Headley , Monal Narasimhamurthy , Dimitrios J. Economou

Taxonomies play a vital role in structuring and categorizing information across domains. However, many existing taxonomies suffer from limited coverage and outdated or ambiguous nodes, reducing their effectiveness in knowledge retrieval. To…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zeinab Ghamlouch , Mehwish Alam

Current research has explored how Generative AI can support the brainstorming process for content creators, but a gap remains in exploring support-tools for the pre-writing process. Specifically, our research is focused on supporting users…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Grace Li , Tao Long , Lydia B. Chilton

With the advent of large language models (LLMs), managing scientific literature via LLMs has become a promising direction of research. However, existing approaches often overlook the rich structural and semantic relevance among scientific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jiasheng Zhang , Jialin Chen , Ali Maatouk , Ngoc Bui , Qianqian Xie , Leandros Tassiulas , Jie Shao , Hua Xu , Rex Ying

Ontologies formalise how the concepts from a given domain are interrelated. Despite their clear potential as a backbone for explainable AI, existing ontologies tend to be highly incomplete, which acts as a significant barrier to their more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Steven Schockaert , Yazmín Ibáñez-García , Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto

Given a set of terms from a given domain, how can we structure them into a taxonomy without manual intervention? This is the task 17 of SemEval 2015. Here we present our simple taxonomy structuring techniques which, despite their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Gregory Grefenstette

We present the state of the art in representing and reasoning with fuzzy knowledge in Semantic Web Languages such as triple languages RDF/RDFS, conceptual languages of the OWL 2 family and rule languages. We further show how one may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Umberto Straccia

Understanding human language often necessitates understanding entities and their place in a taxonomy of knowledge -- their types. Previous methods to learn entity types rely on training classifiers on datasets with coarse, noisy, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Shuyang Li , Mukund Sridhar , Chandana Satya Prakash , Jin Cao , Wael Hamza , Julian McAuley

Fanfiction, a popular form of creative writing set within established fictional universes, has gained a substantial online following. However, ensuring the well-being and safety of participants has become a critical concern in this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Umitcan Sahin , Izzet Emre Kucukkaya , Cagri Toraman