Lexical Semantics and Distribution of Suffixes : A Visual Analysis

BUTT, Miriam, ed. and others. Proceedings of the EACL 2012 Joint Workshop of LINGVIS & UNCLH : Visualization of Linguistic Patterns and Uncovering Language History from Multilingual Resources ; April 23 - 24, 2012, Avignon, France. Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012, pp. 7-15. ISBN 978-1-937284-19-0

Zusammenfassung

We present a quantitative investigation of the cross-linguistic usage of some (relatively) newly minted derivational morphemes. In particular, we examine the lexical semantic content expressed by three suffixes originating in English: -gate, -geddon and -athon. Using data from newspapers, we look at the distribution and lexical semantic usage of these morphemes not only within English, but across several languages and also across time, with a time-depth of 20 years. The occurrence of these suffixes in available corpora are comparatively rare, however, by investigating huge amounts of data, we are able to arrive at interesting insights into the distribution, meaning and spread of the suffixes. Processing and understanding the huge amounts of data is accomplished via visualization methods that allow the presentation of an overall distributional picture, with further details and different types of perspectives available on demand.

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004 Informatik

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EACL, 23. Apr. 2012 - 24. Apr. 2012, Avignon, France

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ROHRDANTZ, Christian, Andreas NIEKLER, Annette HAUTLI-JANISZ, Miriam BUTT, Daniel A. KEIM, 2012. Lexical Semantics and Distribution of Suffixes : A Visual Analysis. EACL. Avignon, France, 23. Apr. 2012 - 24. Apr. 2012. In: BUTT, Miriam, ed. and others. Proceedings of the EACL 2012 Joint Workshop of LINGVIS & UNCLH : Visualization of Linguistic Patterns and Uncovering Language History from Multilingual Resources ; April 23 - 24, 2012, Avignon, France. Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012, pp. 7-15. ISBN 978-1-937284-19-0

BibTex

@inproceedings{Rohrdantz2012Lexic-22584,
  year={2012},
  title={Lexical Semantics and Distribution of Suffixes : A Visual Analysis},
  isbn={978-1-937284-19-0},
  publisher={Association for Computational Linguistics},
  address={Stroudsburg},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the EACL 2012 Joint Workshop of LINGVIS & UNCLH : Visualization of Linguistic Patterns and Uncovering Language History from Multilingual Resources ; April 23 - 24, 2012, Avignon, France},
  pages={7--15},
  editor={Butt, Miriam},
  author={Rohrdantz, Christian and Niekler, Andreas and Hautli-Janisz, Annette and Butt, Miriam and Keim, Daniel A.}
}

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