Suranah writeup for Wang and Cohen 2009

This is a review of Wang_2009_automatic_set_instance_extraction_using_the_web by user:Suranah

The paper presents a more general, language independent set expansion system which can use a class rather than seeds like SEAL. The system tries to identify a noisy set of instances using the hyponym extraction from the seed semantic class. This noisy set is then used over a modified SEAL to expand the set of entities. The system achieves a substantial improvement in MAP over previous results.