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Interpreting Compound Noun Phrases Using Web Search Queries
2015
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
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A weakly-supervised method is applied to anonymized queries to extract lexical interpretations of compound noun phrases (e.g., "fortune 500 companies"). The interpretations explain the subsuming role ("listed in") that modifiers (fortune 500) play relative to heads (companies) within the noun phrases. Experimental results over evaluation sets of noun phrases from multiple sources demonstrate that interpretations extracted from queries have encouraging coverage and precision. The top
doi:10.3115/v1/n15-1037
dblp:conf/naacl/Pasca15
fatcat:gqjvhfqkenbwbcb3xizmefnpae