A Taxonomy, Dataset, and Classifier for Automatic Noun Compound Interpretation

The automatic interpretation of noun-noun compounds is an important subproblem within many natural language processing applications and is an area of increasing interest. The problem is difficult, with disagreement regarding the number and nature of the relations, low inter-annotator agreement, and limited annotated data. In this paper, we present a novel taxonomy of relations that integrates previous relations, the largest publicly-available annotated dataset, and a supervised classification method for automatic noun compound interpretation.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Stephen Tratz, Eduard H. Hovy
• Keywords: ACL 2010, Automatic Interpretation, Computational Linguistics, Noun Compound Interpretation, Supervised Classification Method