300-sparsans at SemEval-2018 Task 9: Hypernymy as interaction of sparse attributes

Abstract

This paper describes 300-sparsans' participation in SemEval-2018 Task 9: Hypernym Discovery, with a system based on sparse coding and a formal concept hierarchy obtained from word embeddings. Our system took first place in subtasks (1B) Italian (all and entities), (1C) Spanish entities, and (2B) music entities.