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ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Interpreting Semantic Relations in Noun Compounds via Verb Semantics
We propose a novel method for automatically interpreting compound nouns based on a predefined set of semantic relations. First we map verb tokens in sentential contexts to a fixed...
Su Nam Kim, Timothy Baldwin
AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Noun Compound Interpretation Using Paraphrasing Verbs: Feasibility Study
Abstract. The paper addresses an important challenge for the automatic processing of English written text: understanding noun compounds’ semantics. Following Downing (1977) [1], ...
Preslav Nakov
AIMSA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Using Verbs to Characterize Noun-Noun Relations
Abstract. We present a novel, simple, unsupervised method for characterizing the semantic relations that hold between nouns in noun-noun compounds. The main idea is to discover pre...
Preslav Nakov, Marti A. Hearst
IJCAI
2003
13 years 6 months ago
The Knowledge Required to Interpret Noun Compounds
Noun compound interpretation is the task of determining the semantic relations among the constituents of a noun compound. For example, "concrete floor" means a floor mad...
James Fan, Ken Barker, Bruce W. Porter
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Semantic Classification with Distributional Kernels
Distributional measures of lexical similarity and kernel methods for classification are well-known tools in Natural Language Processing. We bring these two methods together by int...
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Ann Copestake