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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Hauptverfasser: Ruppenhofer, Josef (VerfasserIn) , Wiegand, Michael (VerfasserIn) , Wilm, Rebecca (VerfasserIn) , Markert, Katja (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Kapitel/Artikel Konferenzschrift
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2018
In: The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - proceedings of the conference
Year: 2018, Pages: 3853-3865
Online-Zugang:Resolving-System, Volltext: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1325/
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Verfasserangaben:Josef Ruppenhofer, Michael Wiegand, Rebecca Wilm, Katja Markert
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Zusammenfassung: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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ISBN:9781948087506