While paraphrase-based intensity evidence produces pairwise predictions that are less precise than those produced by pattern-or lexicon-based evidence, the coverage is substantially higher.
as with pattern-based approaches for other tasks (such as hypernym discovery (Hearst, 1992)), they are precise but have relatively sparse coverage of comparable adjectives, even when using webscale corpora (de Melo and Bansal, 2013;Ruppenhofer et al., 2014).