Coming to Terms: Automatic Formation of Neologisms in Hebrew
Moran Mizrahi, Stav Yardeni Seelig, Dafna Shahaf · 2020
Spoken languages are ever-changing, with new words entering them all the time.However, coming up with new words (neologisms) today relies exclusively on human creativity.In this paper we propose a system to automatically suggest neologisms.We focus on the Hebrew language as a test case due to the unusual regularity of its noun formation.User studies comparing our algorithm to experts and nonexperts demonstrate that our algorithm is capable of generating high-quality outputs, as well as enhance human creativity.More broadly, we seek to inspire more computational work around the topic of linguistic creativity, which we believe offers numerous unexplored opportunities.