CoBra: A Compound Branching Resource for Nominal Triconstituent Compounds in English and German
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: We present CoBra, a resource containing triconstituent nominal compounds in English and German.This addresses an understudied aspect of compound processing, since research and resources in psycholinguistics and NLP have mostly focused on two-constituent compounds.In addition, our resource covers both general and scientific language, allowing for a register-informed perspective on compounds.It provides syntactic and semantic annotation of compound structure, in particular of the branching direction (i.e. the internal embedding structure, the Compound Branching) and the semantic relationship between constituents.Annotations are implemented using extensions of Universal Dependencies (UD) labels.To explore applications of our new resource, we also conduct a pilot study investigating the relationship between semantic transparency and branching direction.Our results indicate that there is indeed a correlation.Overall, our resource contributes to gaining a more detailed understanding of the structure and processing of morphologically complex words within the UD framework.
Institutions: Ruhr University Bochum, Saarland University
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7166514276
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