5 Initially,we selected seeds from WordNet (Fellbaum, 1998) (for English) and EuroWordNet (Vossen, 1998) (for Dutch) to initialize the IE algorithm.
we found that these pairs, such as acinos-mother of thyme or radarschermradarapparatuur (radar screen -radar equipment, hardly co-occured with reasonable frequency in Wikipedia sentences, hindering pattern extraction.