Semantic Affinity

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Semantic Affinity of a linguistic-pattern is a measure for judging the effectiveness of that pattern in extracting the required Noun-Phrases belonging to a semantic class. The term was first used by Patwardhan and Riloff in their paper on learning domain-specific IE patterns from the web.