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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Linguistics Studies

compound noun

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.
  

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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.

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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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1b00As used here, the words 01i00swimming, monthly02i00 and 01i00full 02i00are all 01i00adjectives02i00. 02b02br
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