Deriving Nouns from Numerals NooJ2010 Komotini 1/15 Deriving Adjectives and Nouns from Numerals Kristina Vučković, Sara Librenjak, Zdravko Dovedan University.

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Deriving Adjectives and Nouns

from Numerals

Kristina Vučković, Sara Librenjak, Zdravko DovedanUniversity of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science

{kvuckovi, slibrenj,zdovedan}@ffzg.hr

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Overview of the work

1. about numerals in Croatian : pg. 3

2. counting masculine nouns : pg. 4 - 6

3. different meanings -ICA : pg. 7 - 8

4. approximate number : pg. 9

5. dividers : pg. 10 – 11

6. different meanings –OJKA|-ORKA : pg. 12 – 13

7. results : pg. 14

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About numerals

numerals as numbers 1, 3, 5, 15, 25, 100, 1450, …

numerals as words jedan, tri, pet, petnaest, dvadeset i pet, sto, … one, three, five, fifteen, twenty five, hundred, …

numerals as prefix to adjectives jednodnevni, tromjesečni, petogodišnji, … of one day, of three months, of five years, …

numerals as nouns numerals + suffix (-ICA | -ORKA | - AK | -INA) dvadesetica, dvadesetorka, dvadesetak,

dvadesetina

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counting masculine nouns

intead of using a number dva dječaka -> two boys

numeral nouns can be used 2: dva -> dvojica dječaka 3: tri -> trojica dječaka 4: četiri -> četvorica dječaka 5: pet -> petorica dječaka 6: šest -> šestorica dječaka 7: sedam -> sedmorica dječaka 8: osam -> osmorica dječaka 9: devet -> devetorica dječaka 10: deset -> desetorica dječaka

followed by

<N+G+m+p>

Noun

Genitive

masculine

plural

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ICA

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ICA ->

2-10 11-19

(2..9)*10 (2..9)*100

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grade in school|size of clothes | money bill

dvica – (2) grade in school|size of clothes

trica – (3) grade in school|size of clothes

petica – (5) grade in school|size of clothes

jedanaestica – (11) size of clothes

pedesetica – (50) size of clothes | money bill of 50

stotica – (100) size of clothes | money bill of 100

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ICA 2

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approximate number numerals:

9 through 20 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900

meaning ‘approximately’ devetak dječaka – around 9 boys stotinjak dječaka – around 100 boys

followed by <NP+G+p+m|f|n>

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dividers

when part of something (not time): trećina dječaka – one third of boys petina dječaka – one fifth of boys dvije trećine dječaka – two thirds of boys

when part of time: trećinka vremena – one third of time petinka vremena – one fifth of time

all are in feminine gender <N+f>

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INA -> 1/3, 3/5, 7/27…

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Grade | group of # people

dvojka – 2 | twins | group of 2 people

petorka – 5 | quintuplets| group of 5 people

dvanaestorka – 12 | duodecaplets | group of 12 people

tridesetorka – 30 | twins | group of 30 people

all are Nouns in feminine gender <N+f>

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OJKA|ORKA ->

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Measures

288 examples all were marked all were correct

Precision : 100

Recall : 100

f-measure : 100

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