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Predicting the Semantic Compositionality of Prefix Verbs

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Predicting the Semantic Compositionality of Prefix Verbs
In many applications, replacing a complex word form by its stem can reduce sparsity, revealing connections in the data that would not otherwise be apparent. In this paper, we focus on prefix verbs: verbs formed by adding a prefix to an existing verb stem. A prefix verb is considered compositional if it can be decomposed into a semantically equivalent expression involving its stem. We develop a classifier to predict compositionality via a range of lexical and distributional features, including novel features derived from web-scale Ngram data. Results on a new annotated corpus show that prefix verb compositionality can be predicted with high accuracy. Our system also performs well when trained and tested on conventional morphological segmentations of prefix verbs.
Shane Bergsma, Aditya Bhargava, Hua He, Grzegorz K
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Updated 11 Feb 2011
Type Journal
Year 2010
Where EMNLP
Authors Shane Bergsma, Aditya Bhargava, Hua He, Grzegorz Kondrak
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