AShortSurveyonTaxonomyLearningfromTextCorpora:Issues,ResourcesandRecentAdvancesChengyuWang,XiaofengHe∗,AoyingZhouShanghaiKeyLaboratoryofTrustworthyComputing,SchoolofComputerScienceandSoftwareEngineering,EastChinaNormalUniversitychywang2013@gmail.com,{xfhe,ayzhou}@sei.ecnu.edu.cnAbstractcorporamayvaryinsize,topicandquality.Itisunlikelytodevelopa“one-size-fits-all”solu-Ataxonomyisasemantichierarchy,con-tionforallscenarios.Forexample,givenanex-sistingofconceptslinkedbyis-arelations.tremelylargecorpus,Hearst-patternbasedmethodWhilealargenumberoftaxonomieshaveisemployedtobuildProbase(Wuetal.,2012).beenconstructedfromhuman-compiledFordomain-specificcorpora,l...