GhoSt-NN: A Representative Gold Standard of German Noun-Noun Compounds

Interest in systematically exploring factors that have been found to influence the cognitive processing and representation of compounds, such as • frequency-based factors, i.e., the frequencies of the compounds and their constituents (e.g., van Jaarsveld & Rattink, 1988; Janssen et al., 2008); • the productivity (morphological family size), i.e., the number of compounds that share a constituent (de Jong et al., 2002); • the relationship between compound modifier and head : a teapot is a pot FOR tea, and a snowball is a ball MADE OF snow (Gagné & Spalding, 2009). In addition, we were interested in the effect of ambiguity (of both the modifiers and the heads) regarding the compositionality of the compounds.