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Improving Hypernymy Detection

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There are several interesting lexical-semantic relations, such as synonymy/equivalence ( intelligent/smart, elevator/lift ), hypernymy/subclass ( parrot/bird, stare/look ), meronymy/part-of ( spoon/cutlery, London/England ), antonymy/opposite ( short/tall, boy/girl ), and causality ( flu/fever, rain/flood ).