Questions about usage of negative seeds

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"Bootstrapping Relationship Extractors with Distributional Semantics" (Batista et al., 2015) in EMNLP'15 - Python implementation

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Questions about usage of negative seeds #11

Closed Hongtao-Lin closed 5 years ago

Hongtao-Lin commented 5 years ago

According to the paper: Semi-Supervised Bootstrapping of Relationship Extractors with Distributional Semantics, it looks like only positive seeds are used in algorithm. Would you mind explaining more on the usage of negative seeds here?

davidsbatista commented 5 years ago

The idea is from this paper:

Extracting synonymous gene and protein terms from biological literature

which is also from one of the authors of Snowball