24.2250, FYI: 40474 Split Compounds from GermaNet Available

Fri May 31 14:03:47 UTC 2013

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Subject: 24.2250, FYI: 40474 Split Compounds from GermaNet Available

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Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 10:03:44
From: Verena Henrich [verena.henrich at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: 40474 Split Compounds from GermaNet Available

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We are happy to announce the availability of 40474 German nominal compounds
from GermaNet release 8.0 that have been split into their constituent parts,
i.e., modifier and head. This dataset has been constructed semi-automatically
and all compound splits have been manually post-corrected.

The list of split compounds is freely available for download at
http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/GermaNet/compounds.shtml

For many applications, it is helpful to have information about the parts of
the compound, as usually the semantic interpretation is based on the meaning
of its parts. What makes compound splitting for German a challenging task is
the fact that compounding, which is a very productive word formation process
in German, is not always simple string concatenation. It often involves the
presence of intervening linking elements or the elision of word-final
characters in the modifier constituent of a compound.

For more information about GermaNet, please consult the project website:
http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/GermaNet/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): German (deu)

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