Automatic Interpretation of Noun Compounds Using WordNet Similarity

Kim, Su Nam; Baldwin, Timothy

doi:10.1007/11562214_82

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“…In addition, the performances of various computational models have argued against the idea that modifiers should have a greater influence on relation selection. For example, studies by Kim and Baldwin (2005) and Rosario and Hearst (2004) both found that the head noun is more reliable than the modifier in predicting relation use.…”

Section: Modifier Primacymentioning

confidence: 99%

The influence of interactional semantic patterns on the interpretation of noun–noun compounds.

Maguire¹,

Maguire²,

Cater³

2010

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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The CARIN theory (C. L. Gagne ´& E. J. Shoben, 1997) proposes that people use statistical knowledge about the relations with which modifiers are typically used to facilitate the interpretation of modifiernoun combinations. However, research on semantic patterns in compounding has suggested that regularities tend to be associated with pairings of semantic categories, rather than individual concepts (e.g., P. Maguire, E. J. Wisniewski, & G. Storms, in press;B. Warren, 1978). In the present study, the authors investigated whether people are sensitive to interactional semantic patterns in compounding. Experiment 1 demonstrated that the influence of a given modifier on ease of interpretation varies depending on the semantic category of the head. Experiment 2 demonstrated that the relation preference of the head noun influences ease of interpretation when the semantic category of the modifier is compatible with that preference. In light of these findings, the authors suggest that people are sensitive to how different semantic categories tend to be paired in combination and that this information is used to facilitate the interpretation process.

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Section: Modifier Primacymentioning

confidence: 99%

The influence of interactional semantic patterns on the interpretation of noun–noun compounds.

Maguire¹,

Maguire²,

Cater³

2010

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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“…Yet others (eg. [22,14]) are somewhat similar to [28]. Most of the research to date has been domain independent, done on generic corpus such as Penn Tree Bank, British National Corpus or the web.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 85%

A Framework for Interpreting Bridging Anaphora

Nand

Yeap

2013

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. In this paper we present a novel framework for resolving bridging anaphora. We argue that anaphora, particularly bridging anaphora, is used as a shortcut device similar to the use of compound nouns. Hence, the two natural language usage phenomena would have to be based on the same theoretical framework. We use an existing theory on compound nouns to test its validity for anaphora usages. To do this, we used human annotators to interpret indirect anaphora from naturally occurring discourses. The annotators were asked to classify the relations between anaphor-antecedent pairs into relation types that have been previously used to describe the relations between a modifier and the head noun of a compound noun. We obtained very encouraging results with an average Fleiss's κ value of 0.66 for inter-annotation agreement. The results were evaluated against other similar natural language interpretation annotation experiments and were found to compare well. In order to determine the prevalence of the proposed set of anaphora relations we did a detailed analysis of a subset 20 newspaper articles. The results obtained from this also indicated that a majority (98%) of the relations could be described by the relations in the framework. The results from this analysis also showed the distribution of the relation types in the genre of news paper article discourses.

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“…The κ index for the overall annotation tasks was computed to be Study Agreement Index No. of Relations [11] 0.57 -0.67 κ 43 [22] 0.61 κ 22 [23] 0.68 κ 6 [17] 52.31 % 20 [24] 0.58 κ 21 …”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet others (eg. [16], [17]) are somewhat similar to [18]. Most of the research to date has been domain independent done on generic corpus such as Penn Tree Bank, British National Corpus or the web.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 88%

A relational framework for interpreting anaphora

Nand¹,

Yeap²

2011

PsycEXTRA Dataset

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Abstract-In this paper we present a novel way to resolve indirect or bridging anaphora which gives us a richer interpretation then the current frameworks. The new framework uses the core set of relations that have been used to describe compound noun generation. We firstly argue that the linguistic processes of compound noun generation and the use of NP anaphora are based on a common relational framework. In order to validate this theory we used human annotators to interpret indirect anaphora from naturally occurring discourses. The annotators were asked to classify the relation between an anaphor and the antecedent into relation types that have been previously used to describe the relation between the modifier and the head noun of a compound noun. We obtained very encouraging results with a Fleiss's κ value of 0.66 for inter-annotation agreement. This compares well with other similar annotation experiments for relation interpretation in compound nouns. The annotation results strongly indicate that anaphora and noun compounds are based on very similar relational framework, hence should treated the same.

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Automatic Interpretation of Noun Compounds Using WordNet Similarity

Cited by 62 publications

References 11 publications

The influence of interactional semantic patterns on the interpretation of noun–noun compounds.

The influence of interactional semantic patterns on the interpretation of noun–noun compounds.

A Framework for Interpreting Bridging Anaphora

A relational framework for interpreting anaphora

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