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ACL
2006
14 years 11 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
15 years 3 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
15 years 1 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
14 years 11 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
14 years 11 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