Word sense and semantic relations in noun compounds

  • Authors:
  • Su Nam Kim;Timothy Baldwin

  • Affiliations:
  • Monash University;The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP) - Special issue on multiword expressions: From theory to practice and use, part 2
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this article, we investigate word sense distributions in noun compounds (NCs). Our primary goal is to disambiguate the word sense of component words in NCs, based on investigation of “semantic collocation” between them. We use sense collocation and lexical substitution to build supervised and unsupervised word sense disambiguation (WSD) classifiers, and show our unsupervised learner to be superior to a benchmark WSD system. Further, we develop a word sense-based approach to interpreting the semantic relations in NCs.