WORD FORMATION OF PHOTOGRAPHY TERMINOLOGIES

Using Word Alignment to Extend Multilingual Medical Terminologies

Medical terminologies such as those provided in the UMLS are never exhaustive and there is a constant need to enrich them, especially in terms of multilinguality. We present a methodology to acquire new French translations of English medical terms based on word alignment in a parallel corpus — i.e. pairing of corresponding words. We automatically collected a 27.7-million-word parallel, English-...

investigating word-formation process of compounding in

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Compositionality, of, word-formation

One of the criteria generally applied in distinguishing lexical processes from syntactic ones is compositionality: the standard assumption is that syntactic processes have transparent (compositional) semantics while word-formation is semantically opaque. In this paper I will argue that this assumption is false: certain processes which are generally held to be syntactic are compositional only to...

Compound Word Formation

William Snyder Languages differ in the mechanisms they provide for combining existing words into new, “compound” words. This chapter will focus on two major types of compound: synthetic -ER compounds, like English dishwasher (for either a human or a machine that washes dishes), where “-ER” stands for the crosslinguistic counterparts to agentive and instrumental -er in English; and endocentric b...

Productivity in Word Formation