We describe a method to acquire a distribution of the concepts of adjectives automatically by using a self-organizing map and a directional similarity measure. A means of evaluating concept hierarchies of adjectives extracted automatically from corpora is elucidated. We used Scheffe's method of paired comparison to test experimentally the validity of hierarchies thus obtained with human intuition and found that our method was effective for 43% of the hierarchies considered.
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