The Ins and Outs of Dutch noun countability classification

This paper presents a range of methods for classifying Dutch noun countability based on either Dutch or English data. The classification is founded on translational equivalences and the corpus analysis of linguistic features which correlate with particular countability classes. We show that crosslingual classification on the basis of word-to-word or featureto-feature mappings between English and Dutch performs at least as well as in-language classification based on gold-standard Dutch countability data.