Conference Proceedings
Interpreting semantic relations in noun compounds via verb semantics
SN Kim, T Baldwin
Coling Acl 2006 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Main Conference Poster Sessions | Association for Computational Linguistics | Published : 2006
Abstract
We propose a novel method for automatically interpreting compound nouns based on a predefined set of semantic relations. First we map verb tokens in sentential contexts to a fixed set of seed verbs using WordNet::Similarity and Moby's Thesaurus. We then match the sentences with semantic relations based on the semantics of the seed verbs and grammatical roles of the head noun and modifier. Based on the semantics of the matched sentences, we then build a classifier using TiMBL. The performance of our final system at interpreting NCs is 52.6%.