Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a class of linguistic forms spanning conventional word
boundaries that are both idiosyncratic and pervasive across different languages. The …

In response to the continuing research interest in computational semantic analysis, we have
proposed a new task for SemEval-2010: multi-way classification of mutually exclusive …

An important problem in knowledge discovery from text is the automatic extraction of
semantic relations. This paper presents a supervised, semantically intensive, domain …

The efficacy of triangulation has ensured that it is still used today. For example, land
surveyors use distance from and direction to two landmarks in order to elicit bearings on the …

The NLP community has shown a renewed interest in deeper semantic analyses, among
them automatic recognition of relations between pairs of words in a text. We present an …

The automatic interpretation of noun-noun compounds is an important subproblem within
many natural language processing applications and is an area of increasing interest. The …

We discuss the problem of interpreting noun compounds such as colon cancer tumor
suppressor protein, which pose major challenges for the automatic interpretation of English …

Nominal compounds such as red wine and nut case display a continuum of compositionality,
with varying contributions from the components of the compound to its semantics. This article …

Query segmentation is the process of taking a user's search-engine query and dividing the
tokens into individual phrases or semantic units. Identification of these query segments can …

The relation between ontologies and language is currently at the forefront of natural
language processing (NLP). Ontologies, as widely used models in semantic technologies …