Free Paraphrases of Noun Compounds

We often come across sentences in our daily life containing many nouns which act as a compound noun. The interpretation of these noun compounds may be a very trivial task for us but it is of great value to one who is trying to understand the semantic meaning of any sentence. For a machine to understand the meaning of such compound nouns it should be able to understand the relation between the nouns and then interpret it in that way. Example sea breeze is a compound noun and we will try to paraphrase it suitably to make sense which we automatically do without any effort. Sea breeze can be suitably paraphrased as breeze that comes from sea or breeze that flows from sea, etc. Noun compounds are so frequent in written text, systems that deal with semantic analysis of text cannot ignore those. And because the meaning of the compound cannot be directly obtained from the nouns, the system should have some kind of way of interpreting it. This clarifies the need and significance of methods that are able to disambiguate and explain the semantics of a compound.