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

[sowa at bestweb.net]

> There's a debate to be had about whether or not all possible N+N
> compounds are meaningful to some degree...
An N+N compound in
English means that there is some implicit relationship that the speaker
assumes the audience knows.
One of my favorite examples is 'steamer
duck', which is not a kind of duck that is cooked by steaming (as steamer
clams).
Instead, a steamer duck is one that flaps its wings like a
paddle-wheel steamer when it takes off.
John Sowa
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