An unsupervised approach to interpreting noun compounds

2008 International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, NLP-KE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Su, Nam Kim ^a   Baldwin, Timothy ^a  

^a Dept of Computer Science and Software Engineering ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Interpretation; Noun compound; Unsupervised approach

Indexed keywords

INTERPRETATION; NOUN COMPOUND; NOUN COMPOUNDS; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIER; TEST INSTANCES; UNSUPERVISED APPROACH; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES; UNSUPERVISED METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MAPPING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 67650354340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NLPKE.2008.4906804     Document Type: Conference Paper

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