Identification and analysis of Czech equivalents of German compounds

This bachelor thesis deals with automatic identification of Czech equivalents of Ger- man nominal compounds and their linguistic analysis. Compounding is a word formation process which is exploited in both languages, however, in German it is much more pro- ductive than in Czech, where the derivation word formation process predominates. The first part of the thesis copes with identification of Czech counterparts of Ger- man compounds with the help of parallel corpora and tools for phrase-based statistical machine translation. After the identification, one-word, two-word and multi-word Czech equivalents were distinguished. The Czech equivalents were analysed according to their part-of-speech tags. Over a half of the German nominal compounds correspond to a se- quence of two or more words in Czech, most of the sequences are made up of an adjective and a noun. Morphological structure of one-word equivalents was studied and these equivalents were distinguished into compounds and derivatives, in which the second part of the German compound corresponds to a suffix in the Czech counterpart.