This paper briefly introduces an approach to the problem of building semantic interpretations of nominal ComDounds, i.e. sequences of two or more nouns related through modification. Examples of the kinds of nominal compounds dealt with are: "engine repairs", "aircraft flight arrival", ~aluminum water pump", and "noun noun modification".

* These authors contributed equally to the work † Corresponding authors who have contributed equally Representing phenotypes in a structured and standardized manner across different biological species poses significant challenges. We performed a modeling experiment to compare a model called the Canon model, and the PATO for representing a range of biological and clinical phenotypes. The formal ...

Interpretation Using Typed Decision Graphs

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The goal of this study was to investigate the translateability of creative works into other domains. We tested whether people were able to recognize which works of art were inspired by which pieces of music. Three expert painters created four paintings, each of which was the artist’s interpretation of one of four different pieces of instrumental music. Participants were able to identify which p...

This work proposes opinion frames as a representation of discourse-level associations that arise from related opinion targets and which are common in task-oriented meeting dialogs. We define the opinion frames and explain their interpretation. Additionally we present an annotation scheme that realizes the opinion frames and via human annotation studies, we show that these can be reliably identi...