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 mo...
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
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| Format: | Chapter/Article Conference Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - proceedings of the conference
Year: 2018, Pages: 3853-3865 |
| Online Access: | Resolving-System, Volltext: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1325/
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| Author Notes: | Josef Ruppenhofer, Michael Wiegand, Rebecca Wilm, Katja Markert |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 09.10.2019 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9781948087506 |