Noun Compounds Interpretation简单调研 Wentao Ding

Noun Compounds A noun compound (NC) is a sequence of nouns which act as a single noun. ——Downing, 1977 NCs comprise 3.9% tokens in the Reuters and 2.6% in BNC. (Baldwin and Tanaka, 2004) e.g. “colon cancer tumor suppressor protein” Syntax: Is it [[colon cancer] [[tumor suppressor] protein]] or [[[colon cancer] [tumor suppressor]] protein], etc.? Relationship: Can “colon cancer” be paraphrased as “cancer that occurs in the colon”? Or as “cancer in the colon”? Hyponymy: Is a “tumor suppressor protein” a kind/type of “tumor suppressor”? Is it a kind/type of “suppressor”? e.g. “Olive Oil” is Made of Olives, “Baby Oil” is Made for Babies 结肠癌抑癌蛋白

Noun Compound Syntax Bracketing

Noun Compound Semantics NC interpretation via Relational phrases Top-down relation taxonomy

Paraphrases of NCs “w1#w2” -> “w1 IN w2” SemEval-2013 Task 4: Free Paraphrases of NCs 200 noun compounds, each paraphrased by about 30. Ranking the candidates PP for a given NC W1 W2 Phrase # access road road for access 4 road that gives access road made for access 2 road to access back road to access services around airport 1 road allowing access to something road considered for access

A T-d Relation Taxonomy (Tratz 2011) The original dataset consisted of 17509 compounds annotated with 43 semantic relations. revised with only 37 semantic relations

Hyponymy in NC Semantic Entailment

References Preslav Nakov: On the interpretation of noun compounds: Syntax, semantics, and entailment. Natural Language Engineering 19(3): 291-330 (2013) Stephen Tratz, Eduard H. Hovy: A Taxonomy, Dataset, and Classifier for Automatic Noun Compound Interpretation. ACL 2010: 678-687 Vered Shwartz, Chris Waterson: Olive Oil is Made of Olives, Baby Oil is Made for Babies: Interpreting Noun Compounds using Paraphrases in a Neural Model. CoRR abs/1803 (2018)

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