A majority of research undertaken in interpreting NCs have been based on two statistical methods: SEMANTIC SIMILARITY (Barker and Szpakowicz, 1998; Rosario, 2001;<cite> Moldovan et al., 2004</cite>; Kim and Baldwin, 2005; Nastase, 2006; Girju, 2007; and SEMANTIC INTER-PRETABILITY (Vanderwende, 1994; Lapata, 2002; Kim and Baldwin, 2006; Nakov, 2006) .