To Construct the Interpretation Templates for the Chinese Noun Compounds Based on Semantic Classes and Qualia Structures

Paraphrasing Verbs for Noun Compound Interpretation

An important challenge for the automatic analysis of English written text is the abundance of noun compounds: sequences of nouns acting as a single noun. In our view, their semantics is best characterized by the set of a…

"Covid vaccine is against Covid but Oxford vaccine is made at Oxford!" Semantic Interpretation of Proper Noun Compounds

Proper noun compounds, e.g., "Covid vaccine", convey information in a succinct manner (a "Covid vaccine" is a "vaccine that immunizes against the Covid disease"). These are commonly used in short-form domains, such as ne…

Leveraging Compounds to Improve Noun Phrase Translation from Chinese and German

The Grammar of English Deverbal Compounds and their Meaning

We present an interdisciplinary study on the interaction between the interpretation of noun-noun deverbal compounds (DCs; e.g., task assignment) and the morphosyntactic properties of their deverbal heads in English. Unde…

Visually Grounded Interpretation of Noun-Noun Compounds in English

Noun-noun compounds (NNCs) occur frequently in the English language. Accurate NNC interpretation, i.e. determining the implicit relationship between the constituents of a NNC, is crucial for the advancement of many natur…