SemEval-2010 task 9: the interpretation of noun compounds using paraphrasing verbs and prepositions

  • Authors:
  • Cristina Butnariu;Su Nam Kim;Preslav Nakov;Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha;Stan Szpakowicz;Tony Veale

  • Affiliations:
  • University College Dublin;University of Melbourne;National University of Singapore;University of Cambridge;University of Ottawa;University College Dublin

  • Venue:
  • DEW '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a brief overview of the main challenges in understanding the semantics of noun compounds and consider some known methods. We introduce a new task to be part of SemEval-2010: the interpretation of noun compounds using paraphrasing verbs and prepositions. The task is meant to provide a standard testbed for future research on noun compound semantics. It should also promote paraphrase-based approaches to the problem, which can benefit many NLP applications.