Top a Splitter: Using Distributional Semantics for Improving Compound Splitting

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…

Evaluating Compound Splitters Extrinsically with Textual Entailment

Traditionally, compound splitters are evaluated intrinsically on gold-standard data or extrinsically on the task of statistical machine translation. We explore a novel way for the extrinsic evaluation of compound splitte…

Simple Compound Splitting for German

This paper presents a simple method for German compound splitting that combines a basic frequency-based approach with a form-to-lemma mapping to approximate morphological operations. With the exception of a small set of …

Unsupervised Compound Splitting With Distributional Semantics Rivals Supervised Methods