... inbootstrapping to evaluate the quality of the pat-terns automatically. IE and QA approaches, due to uniqueness assumptions of the real-world rela-tions that these methods search for, have an auto-matic ... goals, although they aresuperficially similar to the correct contexts. Whilestring-based approaches (Paice, 1981; Teufel,1998) are too restrictive to cover the wide varia-tion within the correct ... corpus and, using an appropriate similar-ity measure, ranks them according to their dis-tributional similarity to the nouns “method” and“model”. Subsequently, the noun “method” is used to find transitive...