How Naked is the Naked Truth? A Multilingual Lexicon of Nominal Compound Compositionality

Abstract

We introduce a new multilingual resource containing judgments about nominal compound compositionality in English, French and Portuguese. It covers 3 × 180 noun-noun and adjective-noun compounds for which we provide numerical compositionality scores for the head word, for the modifier and for the compound as a whole, along with possible paraphrases. This resource was constructed by native speakers via crowdsourcing. It can serve as basis for evaluating tasks such as lexical substitution and compositionality prediction.

Discovering multiword expressions

“…The Noun Compositionality Dataset (Ramisch et al . 2016; Cordeiro et al . 2019) uses the same protocol as Reddy et al .…”

Explorando a Geração Automática de Adivinhas em Português

“…• Compostos: uma lista de 180 expressões compostas em português (Ramisch et al, 2016), com instâncias tais comoágua doce, mau-humor, ou primeira mão.…”

Exploring Lexical-Semantic Knowledge in the Generation of Novel Riddles in Portuguese

“…Our intuition is that the meaning of the compounds is more than just the sum of the meanings of both of their words, which may result in unexpected associations, possibly perceived as incongruent, and thus humourprone. The input for this model was a list of 180 Portuguese noun+adjective compounds (Ramisch et al, 2016), with instances such aságua doce (fresh water), mau-humor (bad mood), or primeira mão (first hand/leg).…”