Large-Scale Noun Compound Interpretation Using Bootstrapping and the Web as a Corpus
Table 4: Number of extracted noun compounds and accuracy in % for the method of Kim:2007. The abbreviations Syn., Hyp., and Sis. indicate using synonyms, hypernyms, and sister words, respectively.
['[BOLD] Rep.', '[BOLD] Iter. 1', '[BOLD] Iter. 2', '[BOLD] Iter. 3', '[BOLD] All']
We can see that the overall accuracy of their method is slightly better than ours. Note, however, that our method acquired a much larger number of NCs, while allowing more variety in the NC semantics. Moreover, for each extracted noun compound, we also generated a list of fine-grained paraphrasing verbs.