Crosslingual Countability Classification: English meets Dutch

This paper presents a range of methods for classifying Dutch nouns as countable, uncountable or plural only based on both Dutch and English data. The classification is based on the occurrence of countability specific linguistic features that are extracted from unannotated corpora. We show that in the absence of reliable Dutch gold standard data, cross-linguistic classification can be achieved on the basis of a word-toword or feature-to-feature mapping between English and Dutch.