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On the semantics of noun compounds

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Computer Speech and Language, Volume 19, Issue 4

Pages 479 - 496

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2005.02.006

Published: 01 October 2005 Publication History

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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.

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