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Verbal multiword expressions (VMWEs) remain difficult for machine translation because their meanings are often not recoverable from their component words. In this study, we analyze the impact of three VMWE categories -- verbal idioms,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Linfeng Liu , Saptarshi Ghosh , Tianyu Jiang

This paper revisits the problem of complex word identification (CWI) following up the SemEval CWI shared task. We use ensemble classifiers to investigate how well computational methods can discriminate between complex and non-complex words.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Marcos Zampieri , Shervin Malmasi , Gustavo Paetzold , Lucia Specia

Complex Word Identification (CWI) is the task of identifying which words or phrases in a sentence are difficult to understand by a target audience. The latest CWI Shared Task released data for two settings: monolingual (i.e. train and test…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Pierre Finnimore , Elisabeth Fritzsch , Daniel King , Alison Sneyd , Aneeq Ur Rehman , Fernando Alva-Manchego , Andreas Vlachos

Complex Word Identification (CWI) aims to detect words within a text that a reader may find difficult to understand. It has been shown that CWI systems can improve text simplification, readability prediction and vocabulary acquisition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Sian Gooding , Manuel Tragut

This paper describes an approach to detect idiomaticity only from the contextualized representation of a MWE over multilingual pretrained language models. Our experiments find that larger models are usually more effective in idiomaticity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Minghuan Tan

We present a comprehensive approach for multiword expression (MWE) identification that combines binary token-level classification, linguistic feature integration, and data augmentation. Our DeBERTa-v3-large model achieves 69.8% F1 on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Diego Rossini , Lonneke van der Plas

Multiword expressions present unique challenges in many translation tasks. In an attempt to ultimately apply a multiword expression detection system to the translation of American Sign Language, we built and tested two systems that apply…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Lee Kezar , Aryan Shukla

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

Multiword expressions (MWEs) exhibit both regular and idiosyncratic properties. Their idiosyncrasy requires lexical encoding in parallel with their component words. Their (at times intricate) regularity, on the other hand, calls for means…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Agata Savary , Simon Petitjean , Timm Lichte , Laura Kallmeyer , Jakub Waszczuk

This paper explores techniques that focus on understanding and resolving ambiguity in language within the field of natural language processing (NLP), highlighting the complexity of linguistic phenomena such as polysemy and homonymy and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Miuru Abeysiriwardana , Deshan Sumanathilaka

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

As a key natural language processing (NLP) task, word sense disambiguation (WSD) evaluates how well NLP models can understand the lexical semantics of words under specific contexts. Benefited from the large-scale annotation, current WSD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ying Su , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Tong Zhang

This paper presents a language-independent deep learning architecture adapted to the task of multiword expression (MWE) identification. We employ a neural architecture comprising of convolutional and recurrent layers with the addition of an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Shiva Taslimipoor , Omid Rohanian

This paper presents a machine learning approach for identification of Bengali multiword expressions (MWE) which are bigram nominal compounds. Our proposed approach has two steps: (1) candidate extraction using chunk information and various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Vivekananda Gayen , Kamal Sarkar

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 project aims to provide a semi-supervised approach to identify Multiword Expressions in a multilingual context consisting of English and most of the major Indian languages. Multiword expressions are a group of words which refers to some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Lahari Poddar

Identifying words which may cause difficulty for a reader is an essential step in most lexical text simplification systems prior to lexical substitution and can also be used for assessing the readability of a text. This task is commonly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Matthew Shardlow , Richard Evans , Marcos Zampieri

This study analyzes the attention patterns of fine-tuned encoder-only models based on the BERT architecture (BERT-based models) towards two distinct types of Multiword Expressions (MWEs): idioms and microsyntactic units (MSUs). Idioms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Iuliia Zaitova , Vitalii Hirak , Badr M. Abdullah , Dietrich Klakow , Bernd Möbius , Tania Avgustinova

Pre-trained word embeddings encode general word semantics and lexical regularities of natural language, and have proven useful across many NLP tasks, including word sense disambiguation, machine translation, and sentiment analysis, to name…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Alejandro Moreo , Andrea Esuli , Fabrizio Sebastiani

This paper aims to construct a linguistic resource of Korean Multiword Expressions for Feature-Based Sentiment Analysis (FBSA): DECO-MWE. Dealing with multiword expressions (MWEs) has been a critical issue in FBSA since many constructs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jaeho Han , Changhoe Hwang , Seongyong Choi , Gwanghoon Yoo , Eric Laporte , Jeesun Nam