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Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha

SemEval-2010 Task 9: The Interpretation of Noun Compounds Using Paraphrasing Verbs and Prepositions

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Cristina Butnariu, Su Nam Kim, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha and Stan Szpakowicz and Tony Veale

We present a brief overview of the main challenges in the extraction of semantic relations from English text, and discuss the shortcomings of previous data sets and shared tasks. This leads us to introduce a new task, which will be part of SemEval-2010: multi-way classification of mutually exclusive semantic relations between pairs of common nominals. The task is designed to compare different approaches to the problem and to provide a standard testbed for future research, which can benefit many applications in Natural Language Processing.

@InProceedings{Butnariu:EtAl:09,
  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 NAACL-HLT-09 Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions (SEW-09)},
  year =	 2009,
  address =	 {Boulder, CO}
}