For example, using the correct seed-pair dill < herb we retrieved the following suggested hyponyms for herb: Semantically Similar Words dill rind fennel seasoning juice sauce pepper parsley vinegar oil pur All of these items are related to dill, but only some of them are herbs.
our initial experiment was to construct a hyponymy extraction system based on the six lexicosyntactic patterns identified in (Hearst, 1998), which are listed in Table 1.