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...
Abstract. The paper addresses an important challenge for the automatic processing of English written text: understanding noun compounds’ semantics. Following Downing (1977) [1], ...
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...
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...
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...