... Expressions: Integrating Processing, pages 24–31, Barcelona, Spain Barbara Rosario and Hearst Marti 2001 Classifying the semantic relations in noun compounds via a domain-specific lexical hierarchy In Proceedings ... for training and testing The combined total number of sentential contexts for our 453 NCs was 7,714, containing 1,165 distinct main verbs We next randomly split the NC data into 80% training data ... decomposing them into binary NCs Another simplifying assumption we make is to remove NCs incorporating proper nouns since: (a) the lexical resources we employ in this research not contain them in...