Publication
Towards a Formal Representation of Components of German Compounds
Thierry Declerck; Piroska Lendvai
In: Micha Elsner; Sandra Kuebler (Hrsg.). Proceedings of the 14th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. SIGMORPHON Workshop (SIGMORPHON-16), located at 54th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), August 11, Berlin, Germany, ACL, 8/2016.
Abstract
This paper presents an approach for the formal representation of components
in German compounds. We assume that such a formal representation
will support the segmentation and analysis of unseen compounds that
feature components already seen in other compounds. An extensive language
resource that explicitly codes components of compounds is GermaNet,
a lexical semantic network for German. We summarize the GermaNet
approach to the description of compounds, discussing some of its
shortcomings. Our proposed extension of this representation builds on
the lemon lexicon model for ontologies, established by the W3C Ontology
Lexicon Community Group.