# Improving Hypernymy Detection with an Integrated Path-based and Distributional Method

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06076 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1603.06076/

## Key facts

- Cited by 27 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 19 Mar 2016.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Detecting hypernymy relations is a key task in NLP, which is addressed in the literature using two complementary approaches. Distributional methods, whose supervised variants are the current best performers, and path-based methods, which received less research attention. We suggest an improved path-based algorithm, in which the dependency paths are encoded using a recurrent neural network, that achieves results comparable to distributional methods. We then extend the approach to integrate both path-based and distributional signals, significantly improving upon the state-of-the-art on this task.