Distinguishing affixoid formations from compounds

• Verfasst von: Ruppenhofer, Josef [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Wiegand, Michael [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Wilm, Rebecca [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Markert, Katja [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Distinguishing affixoid formations from compounds
• Verf.angabe: Josef Ruppenhofer, Michael Wiegand, Rebecca Wilm, Katja Markert
• Jahr: 2018
• Umfang: 13 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 09.10.2019
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: International Conference on Computational Linguistics (27. : 2018 : Santa Fe, NM)The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - proceedings of the conference
• Ort Quelle: [Stroudsburg, PA] : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018
• Jahr Quelle: 2018
• Band/Heft Quelle: (2018), Seite 3853-3865
• ISBN Quelle: 978-1-948087-50-6
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 167856687X

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%.