Manually-Constructed Taxonomy

A Manually-Constructed Taxonomy is a taxonomy structure that is a manually constructed knowledge base (whose taxonomy creation was manually constructed).

• Example(s):
  • WordNet 3.0.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Automatically Constructed Taxonomy.
• See: Human-Readable Taxonomy, SemEval-2016 Task 14.

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References

2016

• (Jurgens & Pilehvar, 2016) ⇒ David Jurgens, and Mohammad Taher Pilehvar. (2016). “SemEval-2016 Task 14: Semantic Taxonomy Enrichment.” In: Proceedings of SemEval 2016.
  • QUOTE: Manually constructed taxonomies provide a crucial resource for many NLP technologies, yet these resources are often limited in their lexical coverage due to their construction procedure. While multiple approaches have been proposed to enrich such taxonomies with new concepts, these techniques are typically evaluated by measuring the accuracy at identifying relationships between words, e.g., that a dog is a canine, rather relationships between specific concepts.

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