TY - JOUR AB - Purpose Automatic interpretation of Nominal Compounds is a crucial issue for many applications, for example, sentence understanding, machine translation, question-answering system and so forth. Many automatic interpretation models of Nominal Compounds use the strategies based on verbs or rules to obtain the interpretation of compounds. However, the performances of these models are still limited. The purpose of this paper is to propose an effective approach for automatic interpretation of Chinese nominal compounds.Design/methodology/approach The authors propose a top-down and bottom-up model based on rules and large-scale corpus for automatic interpretation of Nominal Compounds.Findings Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art automatic interpretation model.Originality/value The paper is an up-to-date study of automatic interpretation for Nominal Compounds. It can help people understand the meaning of Nominal Compounds in reading. With a better understanding of Nominal Compounds, we can discover more hidden knowledge in them. VL - 45 IS - 2 SN - 2398-6247 DO - 10.1108/IDD-01-2017-0007 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/IDD-01-2017-0007 AU - Qu Weiguang AU - Dai Rubing AU - Wu Taizhong AU - Liu Jian AU - Zhou Junsheng AU - Gu Yanhui AU - Xu Ge PY - 2017 Y1 - 2017/01/01 TI - An effective approach for automatic interpretation of Chinese nominal compounds T2 - Information Discovery and Delivery PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 101 EP - 106 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -