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Derivation of Adjectives from Proper Nouns

Derivation of Adjectives from Proper Nouns. Derivation of Adjectives from Proper Nouns. Kristina Vučković, Sara Librenjak, Zdravko Dovedan Han University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Information and Communication Sciences

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Derivation of Adjectives from Proper Nouns

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  1. SkupMjesto gggg-mm-dd Derivation of Adjectives from Proper Nouns Derivation of Adjectives from Proper Nouns Kristina Vučković, Sara Librenjak, Zdravko Dovedan Han University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Information and Communication Sciences {kvuckovi, slibrenj,zdovedan}@ffzg.hr NooJ 2012Paris2012-06-14

  2. Overview of the work • Purpose of the research • Proper nouns in Croatian • Proper names • Male names • Female names • Surnames • Derivations of female surnames • Toponyms and geographical terms • Acronyms • Results • Pending work and issues

  3. Purpose of the research • 42 420 proper nouns in Croatian dictionary • 560 779 inflected forms • important part of the dictionary • main goal: • NooJ grammar would save dictionary space and work time • minor goal: • semantical marking of proper noun derived adjectives could be useful for research concerning syntax and semantics

  4. Proper nouns and adjectives derivation (1) • first and last names of people • female names (-a or -0) • Ana-Anin, Ines-Inesin, Mia-Mijin, Ankica-Ankičin • male names (various endings) • Ivan-ov, Luka-Lukin, Ivica-Ivičin, Matej-ev, Harry-jev • surnames (common: –ić, ar, ač, j, lj, š, ac, ec, ak, v, o) • Anić-ev, Stipaničev-ljev, Debeljak-ov, Posavec-Posavčev, Varga-Vargin, Krišto-v, Rahimovski-jev, Mance-tov • female derivations of surnames (-ka, -a, -ova, -eva) • Anićka-Anićkin, Novakova, Zagorčeva, Pavlova • foreign names – according to pronunciation

  5. Proper nouns and adjectives derivation (2) • toponyms, geographic adjectives • commonly ending in –ski, čki, ški • Split-ski, Kutina-Kutinski,Buje-Bujanski • Amerika-američki, Karlovac-karlovački, ! Zagreb+a+čki • Pag-paški, Požega-požeški, Komiža-komiški • names of languages • from toponyms or nationalities, ending in -ski • Portugal-ski, Francuz-francuski, Kinez-kineski • acronyms • syntactic grammar (hyphen) • HDZ-ov, FIFA-in

  6. The grammar

  7. Female names

  8. Male names

  9. Last names

  10. Female last names • Acronyms

  11. Geographical names

  12. Ending part

  13. Results • Tested on a corpus of 752 sentences with 972 instances of adjectives derived from proper nouns • Precision: 0,971 • Recall: 0,958 • F-measure: 0,965

  14. Pending work and issues • Recall issues: • irregular adjetives • Italija->talijanski; Osijek->osječki, Bog->Božji • compound ajdectives • Bosna i Hercegovina – bosanskohercegovački • nationalities, names of institutions – not yet added • Precision issues: • toponymes ending in –ska/čka: Češka, Hrvatska, Hrvatske, Njemačkoj, Slovačka, Turskoj • some common nouns (UPP) homographic with last names (Glas, God)

  15. Thank you for your attention!

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