German Compound Noun

A German Compound Noun is a Compound Noun within the German Vocabulary.

• AKA: German Language Compound Noun.
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• Example(s):
  • “Lebensversicherungsgesellschaftsangestellter”, a German Language Compound Noun (for life insurance company employee).
  • “Schreibtischtäter”, a German Language Compound Noun (for ~writing-table-criminal with indirect culpability)
• See: Chinese Compound Noun.

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References

• (Manning and Schütze, 1999) ⇒ Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schütze. (1999). “Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing." The MIT Press.
  • While maintaining most words spaces, in German compound nouns are written as single words, for example Lebensversicherungsgesellschaftsangestellter 'life insurance company employee.' In many ways this makes linguistic sense, as compounds are a single words, at least phonologically. But for process purposes one may wish to divide such a compound, or at least to be aware of the internal structure of the words, and this becomes a limited words segmentation task. While not the rule, joining of compunds sometimes also happens in English, especially when they are common and have a specialized meaning. We noted above that one finds both data base and database. As another examples, while hard disk is more common, one sometimes finds harddisk in the computer press.

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