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In this paper, the authors present NooJ morphological grammars for recognizing Croatian diminutive and augmentative nouns for those common nouns that already exist in the Croatian NooJ dictionary. The purpose of this project is twofold. The first one is to recognize both diminutive and augmentative forms of each noun existing in our dictionary (over 20 000 common nouns) if such a form occurs in a text. The second purpose is to determine types of texts in which these words appear the most (or if they even appear) which is the reason why we divided our corpus in two thematic categories (children literature, novels). The results of our algorithm are high on both types of text [overall P = 0.82; R = 0.80; f-measure = 0.81]. Although NooJ dictionary allows direct entrance of such derivations as an attribute-value description of a main noun, we have opted for the second option, i.e. writing a morphological grammar that will recognize the needed form. In this way, we are saving the space and time needed to add all the existing forms to the noun’s dictionary.
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Expression is used regardless the size of a ball.
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Expression used for an overweight person.
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Expression used for a pregnant lady regardless the size of her belly.
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Greeting characteristic for the area of City of Zagreb.
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Expression used for a person of a big heart.
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Diminutive form of a noun ‘psychiatrist’ when talking about a great psychiatrist.
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Augmentative form of a noun ‘head’ when talking about someone who is always proposing some not so good ideas.
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However, jaje (en. egg) is an exception.
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Some derivations (like kamenina) are only rarely used and found mainly in literal texts.
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Some of the examples are, however, limited to individual usage. Thus the example kamenina which Babić uses has been used by the literary writer Božić [2], while many average Croatian speakers would find it unusual and eccentric.
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Kocijan, K., Janjić, M., Librenjak, S. (2016). Recognizing Diminutive and Augmentative Croatian Nouns. In: Barone, L., Monteleone, M., Silberztein, M. (eds) Automatic Processing of Natural-Language Electronic Texts with NooJ. NooJ 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 667. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55002-2_3
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