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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 479-496 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Computer Speech and Language |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2005 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Human-Computer Interaction