Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha
SemEval-2010 Task 9: The Interpretation of Noun Compounds Using Paraphrasing Verbs and Prepositions
Cristina Butnariu, Su Nam Kim, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha and Stan Szpakowicz and Tony Veale
Previous research has shown that the meaning of many noun-noun compounds N1 N2 can be approximated reasonably well by paraphrasing clauses of the form "N2 that ... N1", where "..." stands for a verb with or without a preposition. For example, malaria mosquito is a "mosquito that carries malaria". Evaluating the quality of such paraphrases is the theme of Task 9 at SemEval-2010. This paper describes some background, the task definition, the process of data collection and the task results. We also venture a few general conclusions before the participating teams present their systems at the SemEval-2010 workshop. There were 5 teams who submitted 7 systems.
@InProceedings{Butnariu:EtAl:10,
author = {Cristina Butnariu and Su Nam Kim and Preslav Nakov and Diarmuid {\'O S\'eaghdha} and Stan Szpakowicz and Tony Veale},
title = {SemEval-2010 Task 9: The Interpretation of Noun Compounds Using Paraphrasing Verbs and Prepositions},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the SemEval-2 Workshop},
year = 2010,
address = {Uppsala, Sweden}
}