1 Hermann et al. (2012) proposed using generative models for modeling the compositionality of noun-noun compounds. Using interpolation to mitigate the sparse data problem, their model beat the baseline of weighted addition on the <cite>Reddy et al. (2011)</cite> evaluation task when trained on the BNC. However, these results were still significantly lower than those reported by <cite>Reddy et al. (2011)</cite> using the larger ukWaC corpus.