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"text": "Bootstrapping is minimally supervised, as it is initialised with a small number of seed instances of the information to extract. For semantic lexicons, these seeds are terms from the category of interest. The seeds identify contextual patterns that express a particular semantic category, which in turn recognise new terms (Riloff and Jones, 1999) .",
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"text": "Our second contribution exploits this diversity we have identified. We present an unsupervised bagging algorithm which samples from the extracted lexicon rather than relying on existing gazetteers or hand-selected seeds. Each sample is then fed back as seeds to the bootstrapper and the results combined using voting. This both improves the precision of the lexicon and the robustness of the algorithms to the choice of initial seeds.",
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"text": "Unfortunately, semantic drift still dominates in later iterations, since erroneous extracted terms and/or patterns eventually shift the category's direction. Our third contribution focuses on detecting and censoring the terms introduced by semantic drift. We integrate a distributional similarity filter directly into WMEB (McIntosh and Curran, 2008) . This filter judges whether a new term is more similar to the earlier or most recently extracted terms, a sign of potential semantic drift.",
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