Show Me Your Variance and I Tell You Who You Are - Deriving Compound Compositionality from Word Alignments

Fabienne Cap


Abstract
We use word alignment variance as an indicator for the non-compositionality of German and English noun compounds. Our work-in-progress results are on their own not competitive with state-of-the art approaches, but they show that alignment variance is correlated with compositionality and thus worth a closer look in the future.
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W17-1713
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2017)
Month:
April
Year:
2017
Address:
Valencia, Spain
Editors:
Stella Markantonatou, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Veronika Vincze
Venue:
MWE
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
102–107
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-1713
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-1713
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Fabienne Cap. 2017. Show Me Your Variance and I Tell You Who You Are - Deriving Compound Compositionality from Word Alignments. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2017), pages 102–107, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Show Me Your Variance and I Tell You Who You Are - Deriving Compound Compositionality from Word Alignments (Cap, MWE 2017)
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