CharManteau: Character Embedding Models For Portmanteau Creation

• Main Authors: Gangal, Varun, Jhamtani, Harsh, Neubig, Graham, Hovy, Eduard, Nyberg, Eric
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 04.07.2017
• Subjects: Computer Science - Computation and Language

Portmanteaus are a word formation phenomenon where two words are combined to form a new word. We propose character-level neural sequence-to-sequence (S2S) methods for the task of portmanteau generation that are end-to-end-trainable, language independent, and do not explicitly use additional phonetic...