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Multiword expressions (MWEs) represent lexemes that should be treated as single lexical units due to their idiosyncratic nature. Multiple NLP applications have been shown to benefit from MWE identification, however the research on lexical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Ekaterina Kochmar , Sian Gooding , Matthew Shardlow

An interesting and frequent type of multi-word expression (MWE) is the headless MWE, for which there are no true internal syntactic dominance relations; examples include many named entities ("Wells Fargo") and dates ("July 5, 2020") as well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Tianze Shi , Lillian Lee

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a heterogeneous set with a glaring need for classifications. Designing a satisfactory classification involves choosing features. In the case of MWEs, many features are a priori available. Not all features…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Eric Laporte

Automatic identification of mutiword expressions (MWEs) is a pre-requisite for semantically-oriented downstream applications. This task is challenging because MWEs, especially verbal ones (VMWEs), exhibit surface variability. However, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Caroline Pasquer , Agata Savary , Jean-Yves Antoine , Carlos Ramisch , Nicolas Labroche , Arnaud Giacometti

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are composed of multiple words and exhibit variable degrees of compositionality. As such, their meanings are notoriously difficult to model, and it is unclear to what extent this issue affects transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Filip Miletić , Sabine Schulte im Walde

Multiword expressions (MWEs) refer to idiomatic sequences of multiple words. MWE identification, i.e., detecting MWEs in text, can play a key role in downstream tasks such as machine translation, but existing datasets for the task are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Yusuke Ide , Joshua Tanner , Adam Nohejl , Jacob Hoffman , Justin Vasselli , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Taro Watanabe

We introduce a new method to tag Multiword Expressions (MWEs) using a linguistically interpretable language-independent deep learning architecture. We specifically target discontinuity, an under-explored aspect that poses a significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Omid Rohanian , Shiva Taslimipoor , Samaneh Kouchaki , Le An Ha , Ruslan Mitkov

Recent approaches to word sense disambiguation (WSD) utilize encodings of the sense gloss (definition), in addition to the input context, to improve performance. In this work we demonstrate that this approach can be adapted for use in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Joshua Tanner , Jacob Hoffman

Multilingual Word Embeddings (MWEs) represent words from multiple languages in a single distributional vector space. Unsupervised MWE (UMWE) methods acquire multilingual embeddings without cross-lingual supervision, which is a significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Xilun Chen , Claire Cardie

One of the key issues in both natural language understanding and generation is the appropriate processing of Multiword Expressions (MWEs). MWEs pose a huge problem to the precise language processing due to their idiosyncratic nature and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Dipankar Das , Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

Multiword expressions (MWEs) present groups of words in which the meaning of the whole is not derived from the meaning of its parts. The task of processing MWEs is crucial in many natural language processing (NLP) applications, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Damith Premasiri , Tharindu Ranasinghe

This work presents a fine-grained, text-chunking algorithm designed for the task of multiword expressions (MWEs) segmentation. As a lexical class, MWEs include a wide variety of idioms, whose automatic identification are a necessity for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Jake Ryland Williams

Multi-word expressions, verb-particle constructions, idiomatically combining phrases, and phrasal idioms have something in common: not all of their elements contribute to the argument structure of the predicate implicated by the expression.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Cem Bozsahin , Arzu Burcu Guven

We propose an ensemble model for predicting the lexical complexity of words and multiword expressions (MWEs). The model receives as input a sentence with a target word or MWEand outputs its complexity score. Given that a key challenge with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Yuki Taya , Lis Kanashiro Pereira , Fei Cheng , Ichiro Kobayashi

Multi-modal creative writing (MMCW) aims to produce illustrated articles. Unlike common multi-modal generative (MMG) tasks such as storytelling or caption generation, MMCW is an entirely new and more abstract challenge where textual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jiahao Chen , Zhiyong Ma , Wenbiao Du , Qingyuan Chuai

We propose an unsupervised approach to paraphrasing multiword expressions (MWEs) in context. Our model employs only monolingual corpus data and pre-trained language models (without fine-tuning), and does not make use of any external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Takashi Wada , Yuji Matsumoto , Timothy Baldwin , Jey Han Lau

The meaning of polysemous words often varies in a highly productive yet predictable way. Generalizing the regularity between conventional senses to derive novel word meaning is crucial for automated processing of non-literal language uses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Lei Yu

Word meaning, representation, and interpretation play fundamental roles in natural language understanding (NLU), natural language processing (NLP), and natural language generation (NLG) tasks. Many of the inherent difficulties in these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Lifeng Han , Gareth J. F. Jones , Alan F. Smeaton

The article observes data analysis of 286 multi-word expressions (MWEs) based on 16 lexical, grammatical and other criteria described in theoretical books and papers on the notion of idiomaticity. MWEs were collected from the same…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Elena Mikhalkova , Anastasiya Vishnyakova , Anastasiya Drozdova , Polina Gavin , Aleksander Zhmykhov , Timofey Protasov

Multiword expression (MWE) is a sequence of words which collectively present a meaning which is not derived from its individual words. The task of processing MWEs is crucial in many natural language processing (NLP) applications, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Damith Premasiri , Amal Haddad Haddad , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Ruslan Mitkov
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