acl acl2011 acl2011-249 acl2011-249-reference knowledge-graph by maker-knowledge-mining
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Author: Taniya Mishra ; Srinivas Bangalore
Abstract: There are several theories regarding what influences prominence assignment in English noun-noun compounds. We have developed corpus-driven models for automatically predicting prominence assignment in noun-noun compounds using feature sets based on two such theories: the informativeness theory and the semantic composition theory. The evaluation of the prediction models indicate that though both of these theories are relevant, they account for different types of variability in prominence assignment.
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