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non-compositional

non-compositional adjective: not compositional.

Adjective

non-compositional

  1. Not compositional.
    • Any natural language processing system that does not have a knowledge of non-compositional idioms and their interpretation will make mistakes. Previous authors have attempted to automatically identify these expressions through the property of non-substitutability: similar words cannot be...2007, Faye Rochelle Baron, Identifying non-compositional idioms in text using WordNet synsets
    • The recognition and accurate translation of proper nouns, many of which are bilingually non-compositional, are a major issue in MT and other NLP applications. This is especially true for Chinese and Japanese, whose scripts present linguistic and algorithmic challenges not found in other languages.2019, Jack Halpern, Lexicographic Criteria for Selecting Multiword Units for MT Lexicons
    Antonyms:
    compositional

Examples of non-compositional in a sentence

  • Any natural language processing system that does not have a knowledge of non-compositional idioms and their interpretation will make mistakes.2007, Faye Rochelle Baron, Identifying non-compositional idioms in text using WordNet synsets:
  • An idiom is defined as a non-compositional multiword expression, one whose meaning cannot be deduced from the definitions of the component words.2019, Alyssa Hwang, Christopher Hidey, Confirming the Non-compositionality of Idioms for Sentiment Analysis:

Antonyms of non-compositional

Forms of non-compositional

alternative formnoncompositional

Origin of non-compositional

From non- + compositional.

Words formed from non-compositional

Questions about non-compositional

What does non-compositional mean?
Non-compositional means not compositional.
How do you use non-compositional in a sentence?
Any natural language processing system that does not have a knowledge of non-compositional idioms and their interpretation will make mistakes.
What part of speech is non-compositional?
Non-compositional is an adjective.

Words near non-compositional in the dictionary

  1. non-competes
  2. non-competitive
  3. non-compliance
  4. non-compliant
  5. non-composite
  6. non-compositional
  7. non-compositionality
  8. non-compulsory
  9. non-computable
  10. non-coms
  11. non-con

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