A Method for Learning Part-Whole Relations

Willem Robert van Hage^1,2, Hap Kolb¹, and Guus Schreiber²

¹TNO Science & Industry Delft
wrvhage@few.vu.nl
hap.kolb@tno.nl

²Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
schreiber@cs.vu.nl

Abstract. Part-whole relations are important in many domains, but typically receive less attention than subsumption relation. In this paper we describe a method for finding part-whole relations. The method consists of two steps: (i) finding phrase patterns for both explicit and implicit part-whole relations, and (ii) applying these patterns to find part-whole relation instances. We show results of applying this method to a domain of finding sources of carcinogens.

LNCS 4273, p. 723 ff.

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