A Computational Linguistics Study of Compound Nouns in Thai 1
Kanyanut Kriengket, Klong Luang · 2007
This paper presents the boundary of Thai compound nouns, the internal relation, and the properties of the predicates and arguments by the approach of computational linguistics. Nouns referring to scientific instruments are selected as the representation of Thai compound nouns. The logical structure is used for finding the boundary of the compounds, the relation and the properties of any elements, as well. The result is that the predicate functions, as the head of the compound nouns, mostly expresses [INSTRUMENT], [SHAPE], or [CONTAINER]. For the boundary of the compounds, it can be told by calculating the number of the arguments which occur with their predicates. The compounds have at most 2 arguments. The first one expresses [PURPOSE], [CHARACTERISTIC], [STATE], [METHOD], or [PROCESS]. The other expresses [PURPOSE] or [CHARACTERISTIC].