Multiple noun expression analysis: An implementation of Ontological Semantic Technology

The paper analyzes multiple noun expressions, or compound nouns, as part of the implementation of Ontological Semantic Technology, which uses a lexicon, an ontology, and a semantic text analyzer to access and represent the meaning of text. Because the analysis and results depend on the lexical senses of words, general principles of lexical acquisition are discussed. The success in interpretation and classification of such expressions is demonstrated on 100 randomly selected sequences of noun compounds.