Distinguishing affixoid formations from compounds
- 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%.
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| Author: | Josef RuppenhoferORCiDGND, Michael WiegandORCiDGND, Rebecca WilmORCiDGND, Katja MarkertGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-85002 |
| URL: | http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1325 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-948087-50-6 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. August 20-26, 2018 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (COLING 2018) |
| Publisher: | The Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Place of publication: | Stroudsburg PA, USA |
| Editor: | Emily M. Bender, Leon Derczynski, Pierre Isabelle |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/02/19 |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | Affixoid; Automatische Sprachverarbeitung; Deutsch; Semantische Analyse |
| First Page: | 3853 |
| Last Page: | 3865 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Computerlinguistik |
| Program areas: | Pragmatik |
| Program areas: | Digitale Sprachwissenschaft |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International |