ASPER: Attention-based Approach to Extract Syntactic Patterns denoting Semantic Relations in Sentential Context

Understand

Semantic relationships, such as hyponym-hypernym, cause-effect, meronym-holonym etc.

• between a pair of entities in a sentence are usually reflected through syntactic patterns.
• Automatic extraction of such patterns benefits several downstream tasks, including, entity extraction, ontology building, and question answering.
• Unfortunately, automatic extraction of such patterns has not yet received much attention from NLP and information retrieval researchers.