Papers by Milena Belosevic
Willkommens-Merkel, Chaos-Johnson, and Tore-Klose: Modeling the Evaluative Meaning of German Personal Name Compounds (2024.lrec-main)
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Annerose Eichel, Tana Deeg, Andre Blessing, Milena Belosevic, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Sabine Schulte im Walde
| Challenge: | Personal name compounds (PNCs) are compositions that refer to a person, such as Willkommens-Merkel ('Welcome-Meerkel') and a personal name such as Merkel. |
| Approach: | They propose to model 321 personal name compounds and their corresponding full names at discourse level and compare two approaches to assess whether a PNC is more positively or negatively evaluative . they further enrich data with personal, domain-specific, and extra-linguistic information and perform regression analyses revealing that factors including compound and modifier valence, domain, and political party membership influence how a pnc is evaluated. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model shows that the PNCs are perceived as more positively or negatively than their full name and that they are perceived to be more positive or negative. |