In order to reduce irrelevant chunks, when excerpts were extracted, the Provider drops all characters preceding the hyponym phrase in excerpts that contain the first type, and also drops all characters following the hyponym phrase in excerpts that contain the second type.
unlike all of those systems, ASIA does not use any NLP tool (e.g., partsof-speech tagger, parser) or rely on capitalization for extracting candidates (since we wanted ASIA to be as language-independent as possible).