{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/simple-models-for-word-formation-in-english","title":"Simple Models for Word Formation in English Slang","arxiv_id":"1804.02596","date":"2018-04-07","proceeding":null,"authors":["Vivek Kulkarni","William Yang Wang"],"abstract":"We propose generative models for three types of extra-grammatical word\nformation phenomena abounding in English slang: Blends, Clippings, and\nReduplicatives. Adopting a data-driven approach coupled with linguistic\nknowledge, we propose simple models with state of the art performance on human\nannotated gold standard datasets. Overall, our models reveal insights into the\ngenerative processes of word formation in slang -- insights which are\nincreasingly relevant in the context of the rising prevalence of slang and\nnon-standard varieties on the Internet.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02596v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02596v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"simple-models-for-word-formation-in-english","repo_url":"https://github.com/viveksck/simplicity","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/1804.02596","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1804.02596","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}