Reverse-engineering Language: A Study on the Semantic Compositionality of German Compounds
Corina Dima · 2015
In this paper we analyze the performance of different composition models on a large dataset of German compound nouns.Given a vector space model for the German language, we try to reconstruct the observed representation (the corpusestimated vector) of a compound by composing the observed representations of its two immediate constituents.We explore the composition models proposed in the literature and also present a new, simple model that achieves the best performance on our dataset.