On the semantics of noun compounds

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 479-496

  Girju, Roxana ^a   Moldovan, Dan ^b   Tatu, Marta ^b   Antohe, Daniel ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BRACKETING; NOUN COMPOUNDS; PARAPHRASES; SEMANTIC RELATIONS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 23944435401     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2005.02.006     Document Type: Article

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