In the present study, we investigated to what extent compounding involves general-level cognitive abilities related to conceptual combination. If that was the case, the compounding mechanism should be largely invariant across different languages. Under this assumption, a compositional model trained on word representations in one language should be able to predict compound meanings in other languages. We investigated this hypothesis by training a word embedding-based compositional model on a set of English compounds, and subsequently applied this model to German and Italian test compounds. The model partially predicted compound meanings in German, but not in Italian.
Gunther, F., Marelli, M. (2018). The language-invariant aspect of compounding: Predicting compound meanings across languages. In Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018) (pp.230-234). CEUR-WS [10.4000/books.aaccademia.3411].
The language-invariant aspect of compounding: Predicting compound meanings across languages
Marelli M.
2018
Abstract
In the present study, we investigated to what extent compounding involves general-level cognitive abilities related to conceptual combination. If that was the case, the compounding mechanism should be largely invariant across different languages. Under this assumption, a compositional model trained on word representations in one language should be able to predict compound meanings in other languages. We investigated this hypothesis by training a word embedding-based compositional model on a set of English compounds, and subsequently applied this model to German and Italian test compounds. The model partially predicted compound meanings in German, but not in Italian.
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