@inproceedings{Cook2007a,
  author={Paul Cook and Suzanne Stevenson},
  title={Automagically Inferring the Source Words of Lexical Blends},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Conference of the Pacific Association
             for Computational Linguistics (PACLING-2007)},
  year={2007},
  address={Melbourne, Australia},
  abstract={Lexical blending is a highly productive and frequent process by which
           new words enter a language.  A blend is formed when two or more source
           words are combined, with at least one them shortened, as in
           "brunch" ("breakfast"+"lunch").  We use linguistic and
           cognitive aspects of this process to motivate a computational
           treatment of neologisms formed by blending.  We propose statistical
           features that can indicate the source words of a blend, and whether an
           unknown word was formed by blending.  We present computational
           experiments that show the usefulness in these tasks of features
           tapping into the recognizability of the source words
           in the blend, in combination with their semantic properties.},
  download={http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~pcook/CookStevenson2007.pdf},
}