The semantic transparency of English compound nouns
This is the webpage for my book
The semantic transparency of English compound nouns, which is the revised version of my Habilitationsschrift. You can download the book from the publisher's website:
The semantic transparency of English compound nouns.
Data used in the book
1. The semantic annotations used for the models presented in Chapter 6 are available
here. They were originally created and made available for the 2013 article
Semantic transparency:
challenges for distributional semantics by Melanie Bell and me.
2. The annotated database of compound families used in the models presented in Chapter 7 is available
here. The database was originally created and made available for the 2016 article
Modelling semantic transparency by Melanie Bell and me.
The additional notes on the semantic coding are available here:
Notes on the Semantic Coding.
Please be sure to cite the original papers if you use or discuss the annotations:
Bell, Melanie J. & Schäfer, Martin (2013).
Semantic transparency:
challenges for distributional semantics. In: Herbelot, Aurelie and
Zamparelli, Roberto and Boleda, Gemma (eds.). Proceedings of the IWCS 2013
Workshop Towards a Formal Distributional Semantics. Potsdam: Association
for Computational Linguistics,
1-10.
[.pdf
(local copy)] [.bib].
Bell, Melanie J. & Schäfer, Martin (2016). Modelling semantic transparency.
Morphology, 26(2), 157-199.
DOI: 10.1007/s11525-016-9286-3.
[.pdf]
Note that the 2 studies and the further analyses presented in the two chapters were only possible because we could make use of the
data from the Reddy et al. (2011) study. I therefore repeat their
citation details as well as the web address for their data below:
Reddy, Siva, Diana McCarthy & Suresh Manandhar (2011). An Empirical
Study on Compositionality in Compound Nouns. In Proceedings of The 5th
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2011
(IJCNLP 2011), Chiang Mai, Thailand,
.pdf.
The Reddy et al. data is available
here or
here.