Cecile
You might want to consider the diy approach.
i) get yourself a corpus (eg LOB) or collect one yourself. The latter is
a good idea if you want to confine yourself to a narrow semantic domain
ii) if it is untagged, run it through a tagger. There are a number of public
domain taggers which are reasonably good
iii) filter out the noun compounds, using your own rules (based on part-of-speec
h)
to determine what count as compounds. I may have a perl program which might
be useful in this respect.
Bonne chance!
Nick