Automatic Compound Processing: Compound Splitting and Semantic Analysis for Afrikaans and Dutch

Splitting Compounds by Semantic Analogy

Compounding is a highly productive word-formation process in some languages that is often problematic for natural language processing applications. In this paper, we investigate whether distributional semantics in the fo…

Chasing the Perfect Splitter: A Comparison of Different Compound Splitting Tools

This paper reports on the evaluation of two compound splitters for German. Compounding is a very frequent phenomenon in German and thus efficient ways of detecting and correctly splitting compound words are needed for na…

A Joint Approach to Compound Splitting and Idiomatic Compound Detection

Applications such as machine translation, speech recognition, and information retrieval require efficient handling of noun compounds as they are one of the possible sources for out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words. In-depth pro…

Using Semantics for Granularities of Tokenization

Depending on downstream applications, it is advisable to extend the notion of tokenization from low-level character-based token boundary detection to identification of meaningful and useful language units. This entails b…

Top a Splitter: Using Distributional Semantics for Improving Compound Splitting