1. NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 Skup Mjesto gggg-mm-dd Derivation of Adjectives from Proper Nouns Kristina Vučković, Sara Librenjak, Zdravko Dovedan Han University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Information and Communication Sciences {kvuckovi, slibrenj,zdovedan} @ ffzg.hr NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 Derivation of Adjectives from Proper Nouns

2. NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 Overview of the work 1.Purpose of the research 2.Proper nouns in Croatian 1.Proper names 1.Male names 2.Female names 2.Surnames 1.Derivations of female surnames 3.Toponyms and geographical terms 4.Acronyms 3.Results 4.Pending work and issues

3. NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 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

4. NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 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

5. NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 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

6. NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 The grammar

7. NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 Female names

8. NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 Male names

9. NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 Last names

10. NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 Female last names Acronyms

11. NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 Geographical names

12. NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 Ending part

13. NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 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

14. NooJ 2012 Paris 2012-06-14 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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