Olive Oil is Made of Olives, Baby Oil is Made for Babies [Paper Summary]

This article summarizes a novel technique for a very complex task in NLP known as noun compound classification. Consider the following noun compound examples: olive oil and baby oil. You can observe that the word "olive" in the phrase "olive oil" describes a SOURCE relation, and the word "baby" in "baby oil" describes a PURPOSE relation. In other words, babies should never be put in the same context as olives in terms of what they represent in the real world. This distinction is important because it can be used for various applications that require complex text understanding capabilities. Imagine you asked Google search what olive oil is made up of.