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 prob...
Noun compound interpretation is the task of determining the semantic relations among the constituents of a noun compound. For example, "concrete floor" means a floor mad...
Abstract. The paper addresses an important challenge for the automatic processing of English written text: understanding noun compounds’ semantics. Following Downing (1977) [1], ...