Dynamic Portmanteau Word Semantic Identification
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Abstract
An approach is provided to discover new portmanteau, such as when ingesting documents into a question answering (QA) system. The approach works by analyzing a words included in electronic documents and identifies words as being possible portmanteaus. To analyze a portmanteau found in a document, the approach identifies morphemes that are included in the identified portmanteau and candidate words that correspond to each of the identified morphemes. A meaning for the new portmanteau is then derived from the meanings of the candidate word meanings.
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9. An information handling system comprising:
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one or more processors; one or more data stores accessible by at least one of the processors; a display accessible by at least one of the processors; a memory coupled to at least one of the processors; and a set of computer program instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of; analyzing a plurality of words included in a plurality of electronic documents, wherein the analysis identifies at least one of the plurality of words as being a portmanteau; identifying a plurality of morphemes included in the identified portmanteau and one or more candidate words that correspond to each of the identified morphemes, wherein each of the candidate words has a candidate word meaning; and deriving a portmanteau meaning corresponding to the identified portmanteau from at least two of the candidate word meanings. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer program product stored in a computer readable storage medium, comprising computer program code that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions comprising:
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analyzing a plurality of words included in a plurality of electronic documents, wherein the analysis identifies at least one of the plurality of words as being a portmanteau; identifying a plurality of morphemes included in the identified portmanteau and one or more candidate words that correspond to each of the identified morphemes, wherein each of the candidate words has a candidate word meaning; and deriving a portmanteau meaning corresponding to the identified portmanteau from at least two of the candidate word meanings. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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