@incollection{RuppenhoferWiegandWilmetal.2019,
  author    = {Josef Ruppenhofer and Michael Wiegand and Rebecca Wilm and Katja Markert},
  title     = {Distinguishing affixoid formations from compounds},
  series = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. August 20-26, 2018 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (COLING 2018)},
  editor    = {Emily M. Bender and Leon Derczynski and Pierre Isabelle},
  publisher = {The Association for Computational Linguistics},
  address   = {Stroudsburg PA, USA},
  isbn      = {978-1-948087-50-6},
  url       = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-85002},
  pages     = {3853 -- 3865},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {We study German affixoids, a type of morpheme in between affixes and free stems. Several properties have been associated with them – increased productivity; a bleached semantics, which is often evaluative and/or intensifying and thus of relevance to sentiment analysis; and the existence of a free morpheme counterpart – but not been validated empirically. In experiments on a new data set that we make available, we put these key assumptions from the morphological literature to the test and show that despite the fact that affixoids generate many low-frequency formations, we can classify these as affixoid or non-affixoid instances with a best F1-score of 74\%.},
  language  = {en}
}