compound noun

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Anonymous  #481065  Sun, 24 Feb 08 02:53 PM
I was wondering when tagging part of speech of a sentence which
contain compound noun, should we treat the words of compound noun
separately or treat the whole compound noun as a single unit ?
For example,

swimming pool  (is it VERB + NOUN or just NOUN ? )
monthly ticket (is it ADJECTIVE + NOUN or just NOUN ? )
full moon (is it ADJECTIVE + NOUN or just NOUN ? )

if we treat "swimming pool" as a single unit, then in part of speech
we should at first tag those that consist of 2 words before tagging
the single word. Is this how it works ? Because later I would like to
build up the semantic of it. I researching on Computational linguistic.
Thank you.

 

  
Doll  #481098  Sun, 24 Feb 08 04:47 PM

Hello, 

As I was taught, the last segment of compound nouns defines its category.  

swimming pool --- pool is noun so swimming pool is a noun.   

monthly ticket  --- ticket is noun so monthly ticket is noun too.  ( I still forget where to put the comma. )    

 

 

  
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Anonymous  #483729  Sat, 01 Mar 08 05:09 PM

As used here, the words swimming, monthly and full are all adjectives

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