Head or Non-head? Semi-automatic Procedures for Extracting and Classifying Subcategorisation Properties of Compounds

In this paper we discuss an approach to the semi-automatic classification of the compounds extracted from German corpora. Compound nominals are semi-automatically extracted from text corpora along with their sentential complements and classified. Our classification is based on the relationships between the subcategorisation of nominal compounds, e.g. Grundfrage, Wettstreit and Beweismittel and that of their constituent parts, Frage, Streit, Beweis, etc. We show that there are cases which do not match the commonly accepted assumption that the head of a compound is its valency bearer. Such cases should receive a specific treatment in NLP dictionary building.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Ulrich Heid
• Keywords: Compound Nominals, Education, German Corpora, LREC 2008, Sentential Complements