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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
A Concept-Centered Approach to Noun-Compound Interpretation
A noun-compound is a compressed proposition that requires an audience to recover the implicit relationship between two concepts that are expressed as nouns. Listeners recover this...
Cristina Butnariu, Tony Veale
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Resolving Noun Compounds with Multi-Use Domain Knowledge
In this paper we describe a system for semantic interpretation of noun compounds that relies on world and domain knowledge from a knowledge base. This architecture combines domain...
Alicia Tribble, Scott E. Fahlman
AI
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Trainable Bracketer for Noun Modifiers
Noun phrases carry much of the information in a text. Systems that attempt to acquire knowledge from text must first decompose complex noun phrases to get access to that informatio...
Ken Barker
AAAI
1994
13 years 6 months ago
The Ups and Downs of Lexical Acquisition
We have implemented an incremental lexical acquisition mechanism that learns the meanings of previously unknown words from the context in which they appear, as a part of the proce...
Peter M. Hastings, Steven L. Lytinen