As an example of the importance of syntax in encyclopedic definitions, among the definitions contained in the WCL definition corpus (see Section 3.1), 71% of them include the lexico-syntactic To explore the potential of syntactic information, we represent dependency-based phrases by embedding them in the same vector space as the pretrained word embeddings introduced above.
in the early days of DE, rulebased approaches leveraged linguistic cues observed in definitional data (Rebeyrolle and Tanguy, 2000;Klavans and Muresan, 2001;Malaisé et al., 2004;Saggion and Gaizauskas, 2004;Storrer and Wellinghoff, 2006).