Succession Relation

The Succession Relation is a Domain Dependent Binary Semantic Relation where one person is replaced by another person.

• AKA: Succeeds Relation, Succession.
• Context:
  • (IsA) It is an Antisymmetric Relation.
  • (IsA) It is an Irreflexive Relation.
  • (IsA) It is an Intransitive Relation.
• Example(s):
  • Barack Obama succeeded George Bush.
  • Pope Benedict XVI succeeded Pope John Paul II.
• See: TREC-9 Corpus.

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References

• (Pantel and Pennacchiotti, 2006) ⇒ Patrick Pantel and M. Pennacchiotti. (2006). “Espresso: Leveraging Generic Patterns for Automatically Harvesting Semantic Relations.” In: Proceedings of COLING/ACL-2006.
  • succession: This relation indicates that a person succeeds another in a position or title. For example, George Bush succeeded Bill Clinton and Pope Benedict XVI succeeded Pope John Paul II. We evaluate this relation on the TREC-9 corpus.
  • Succession (12)
    • Seeds: Khrushchev :: Stalin; Carla Hills :: Yeutter; Bush :: Reagan; Julio Barbosa :: Mendes
    • Espresso: Ford :: Nixon; Setrakian :: John Griesemer; Camero Cardiel :: Camacho; Susan Weiss :: editor.

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