%0 Journal Article %T Hacia la identificaci¨®n de relaciones de hiponimia/hiperonimia en Internet %A Ortega %A Rosa Mar¨ªa %A Aguilar %A C¨¦sar %A Villase£¿or %A Luis %A Montes %A Manuel %A Sierra %A Gerardo %J Revista signos %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-09342011000100006 %X this paper presents an approach to the automatic extraction of hyponyms and hyperonyms. in particular, it proposes an information extraction method that is specially suited for identifying pairs of hyponym-hyperonym by using a set of spanish lexical patterns. it also proposes a symmetric weighting scheme of pairs/patterns whose goal is to enhance the confidence of the extraction method. the effectiveness of the proposed approach was evaluated by extracting hyponyms from a given vocabulary of hyperonyms. results show the usefulness of the proposed extraction method as well as the relevance of the pairs/patterns weighting scheme. %K hyponym %K hypernym %K lexical-syntactic pattern %K information extraction. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-09342011000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en