On the semantics of noun compounds

  • Authors:
  • Roxana Girju;Dan Moldovan;Marta Tatu;Daniel Antohe

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA;Human Language Technology Research Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA;Human Language Technology Research Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA;Human Language Technology Research Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computer Speech and Language
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper provides new insights on the semantic characteristics of two and three noun compounds. An analysis is performed using two sets of semantic classification categories: a list of 8 prepositional paraphrases previously proposed by Lauer [Designing statistical language learners: experiments on noun compounds, Ph.D. Thesis, Macquarie University, Australia] and a new set of 35 semantic relations introduced by us. We show the distribution of these semantic categories on a corpus of noun compounds and present several models for the bracketing and the semantic classification of noun compounds. The results are compared against state-of-the-art models reported in the literature.