An Empirical Study on Compositionality in Compound Nouns

作者: Diana McCarthy , Suresh Manandhar , Siva Reddy

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关键词: Artificial intelligenceRelation (database)Natural language processingPhrasePrinciple of compositionalityNounMultiplicative functionAdditive modelRange (mathematics)Function (mathematics)Computer science

摘要: A multiword is compositional if its meaning can be expressed in terms of the constituents. In this paper, we collect and analyse compositionality judgments for a range compound nouns using Mechanical Turk. Unlike existing datasets, our dataset has on contribution constituent words as well phrase whole. We use to study relation between at level that whole phrase. then evaluate two different types distributional models detection – based composition function models. Both show competitive performance though perform slightly better. both types, additive better than their multiplicative counterparts.

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