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Derivation of Adjectives from Proper Nouns

Kristina Vučković, Sara Librenjak, Zdravko Dovedan Han

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social SciencesDepartment of Information and Communication Sciences

{kvuckovi, slibrenj,zdovedan}@ffzg.hr

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Overview of the work

1. Purpose of the research2. Proper nouns in Croatian

1. Proper names1. Male names2. Female names

2. Surnames1. Derivations of female surnames

3. Toponyms and geographical terms4. Acronyms

3. Results4. Pending work and issues

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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

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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

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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

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The grammar

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Female names

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Male names

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Last names

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Female last names • Acronyms

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Geographical names

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Ending part

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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

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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)

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