The Role of Modifier and Head Properties in Predicting the Compositionality of English and German Noun-Noun Compounds: A Vector-Space Perspective
Sabine Schulte im Walde, Anna Hätty, Stefan Bott · 2016
In this paper, we explore the role of constituent properties in English and German noun-noun compounds (corpus frequencies of the compounds and their constituents; productivity and ambiguity of the constituents; and semantic relations between the constituents), when predicting the degrees of compositionality of the compounds within a vector space model.The results demonstrate that the empirical and semantic properties of the compounds and the head nouns play a significant role.