Hypernyms, in addition, are the backbone of lexical ontologies (Yu et al., 2015), which are in turn useful for organizing, navigating and retrieving online content (Bordea et al., 2016).
we propose to evaluate the contribution of cross-lingual embeddings towards the task of hypernym discovery, i.e., given an input word (e.g., cat), retrieve or discover its most likely (set of) valid hypernyms (e.g., animal, mammal, feline, and so on).