In most languages, new words can be created through the process of compounding, which combines two or more words into a new lexical unit. Whereas in languages such as English the components that make up a compound are separated by a space, in languages such as Finnish, German, Afrikaans and Dutch these components are concatenated into one word. Compounding is very productive and leads to practi...

Compound noun analysis is one of the crucial problems in Korean language processing because a series of nouns in Korean may appear without white space in real texts, which makes it difficult to identify the morphological constituents. This paper presents an effective method of Korean compound noun segmen-tation based on lexical data extracted from corpus. The segmentation is done by two steps: ...

Splitting of compound Telugu words into its components or root words is one of the important, tedious and yet inaccurate tasks of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Except in few special cases, at least one vowel is necessarily involved in Telugu conjunctions. In the result, vowels are often repeated as they are or are converted into other vowels or consonants. This paper describes issues invol...

In this paper, we propose an automatic term recognition system for Chinese. Our idea is based on the relation between a compound word and its constituents that are simple words or individual Chinese character. More precisely, we basically focus on how many words/characters adjoin the word/character in question to form compound words. We also take into account the frequency of term. We evaluated...

In this paper, we propose an automatic term recognition system for Chinese. Our idea is based on the relation between a compound word and its constituents that are simple words or individual Chinese character. More precisely, we basically focus on how many words/characters adjoin the word/character in question to form compound words. We also take into account the frequency of term. We evaluated...

Compounding in morphologically rich languages is a highly productive process which often causes SMT approaches to fail because of unseen words. We present an approach for translation into a compounding language that splits compounds into simple words for training and, due to an underspecified representation, allows for free merging of simple words into compounds after translation. In contrast t...

Compound words with irregular plural nouns in first position (e.g. mice-eater) are produced far more frequently than compound words with regular plural nouns in first position (e.g. *rats-eater), (Gordon, 1985). Using empirical evidence and neural net modelling, the studies presented here demonstrate how a single route, associative memory based account might provide an equally, if not more, val...