Title
Compound Or Term Features? Analyzing Salience In Predicting The Difficulty Of German Noun Compounds Across Domains
Abstract
Predicting the difficulty of domain-specific vocabulary is an important task towards a better understanding of a domain, and to enhance the communication between lay people and experts. We investigate German closed noun compounds and focus on the interaction of compound-based lexical features (such as frequency and productivity) and terminology-based features (contrasting domain-specific and general language) across word representations and classifiers. Our prediction experiments complement insights from classification using (a) manually designed features to characterise termhood and compound formation and (b) compound and constituent word embeddings. We find that for a broad binary distinction into easy vs. difficult general-language compound frequency is sufficient, but for a more fine-grained four-class distinction it is crucial to include contrastive termhood features and compound and constituent features.
Year
Venue
DocType
2021
10TH CONFERENCE ON LEXICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS (SEM 2021)
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anna Hätty113.40
Julia Bettinger200.34
Michael Dorna3277.48
Jonas Kuhn411.37
Sabine Schulte im Walde544065.65