[Corpora-List] Free Paraphrases of Noun Compounds -- a task at *SEM 2013

[Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha]

"Onion tears" certainly is attested:

Onion tears affect my contact lenses 
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-82510/Onion-tears-affect-contact-lenses.html)
No more onion tears! 
(http://durhamfoodie.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/no-more-onion-tears.html)
I actually never have a problem because I wear contacts and for some 
reason there's barrier between me and those dang onion tears. 
(http://joannagoddard.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/chopping-onions.html)
I echo the previous commenter that contacts are the best solution for 
onion tears. 
(http://www.thekitchn.com/tip-let-cut-onions-go-for-a-sw-117149)

My intuition is that it's a semantically straightforward compound 
(assuming you know about chopping onions).

There's a debate to be had about whether or not all possible N+N 
compounds are meaningful to some degree, but for the SemEval task we're 
not using any unattested compounds.

Diarmuid

On 22/01/13 19:50, E. Bashir wrote:
> I notice (from the website) that there is no option like "not a
> felicitous noun compound" or "not a meaningful noun compound" listed
> among the choices.  For example, the noun compound suggested "onion
> tears" is not a noun compound that I have ever heard used, or would ever
> use.
>
> Elena Bashir
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Lushan Han <lushan1 at umbc.edu>
>     *To:* Stan Szpakowicz <szpak at eecs.uottawa.ca>
>     *Cc:* corpora at uib.no
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:22 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Corpora-List] Free Paraphrases of Noun Compounds --
>     a task at *SEM 2013
>
>     Would it be more interesting if some paraphrases are intentionally
>     made "wrong"? IMHO, it seems that ranking all true paraphrases is
>     not very interesting.
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     Lushan
>
>     On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Stan Szpakowicz
>     <szpak at eecs.uottawa.ca <mailto:szpak at eecs.uottawa.ca>> wrote:
>
>         Free Paraphrases of Noun Compounds -- a task at *SEM 2013
>
>         We invite all and sundry to participate. All details appear on
>         the official site at:
>
>         http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/task4/
>
>         Registration for task participants:
>
>         http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/index.php?id=registration
>
>         Contact: iris at clul.ul.pt <http://clul.ul.pt/>
>
>         Just to whet your appetite, here is the abstract:
>
>         The task of classifying English noun compounds explores the idea
>         of interpreting the semantics of noun compounds via paraphrases.
>         Given a two-word noun compound, the participants are asked to
>         produce an explicitly ranked list of its free paraphrases. The
>         list will be automatically compared and evaluated against a
>         similarly ranked list of paraphrases proposed by human
>         annotators, recruited and managed through Amazon's Mechanical
>         Turk. The comparison of raw paraphrases will be sensitive to
>         syntactic and morphological variations. The ranking of
>         paraphrases will be based on their relative popularity among
>         annotators. To achieve a reliable ranking, highly similar
>         paraphrases will be grouped so as to downplay superficial
>         differences in syntax and morphology.
>
>         And the relevant dates (slightly tentative), all in 2013:
>
>         February 15: Test set ready
>         February 15: Registration deadline for task participants
>         March 1-15: Evaluation period
>         April 9: Paper submission deadline
>         May 4: Camera-ready paper due
>         June 13 or 14: Workshop co-located with NAACL
>
>         Cristina, Iris, Su, Zornitsa, Preslav, Diarmuid, Stan and Tony
>
>         --
>         Stan Szpakowicz, PhD, Professor
>         EECS, Computer Science, University of Ottawa
>
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