Resolving Noun Compounds with Multi-Use Domain Knowledge
Alicia Tribble, Scott E. Fahlman · 2006
In this paper we describe a system for semantic inter-pretation of noun compounds that relies on world and domain knowledge from a knowledge base. This ar-chitecture combines domain-independent compounding rules with a task-independent knowledge representa-tion, allowing both components to be flexibly reused. We present examples from Scientific American text, on which the system was developed, and then describe an exercise that tests the portability of the architecture to a new domain: email text on the topic of conference planning.