8 avril 2019
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Fritz Günther et al., « The language-invariant aspect of compounding: Predicting compound meanings across languages », Accademia University Press, ID : 10.4000/books.aaccademia.3411
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.