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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

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

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

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

Correctly identifying multiword expressions (MWEs) is an important task for most natural language processing systems since their misidentification can result in ambiguity and misunderstanding of the underlying text. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Andrei-Marius Avram , Verginica Barbu Mititelu , Vasile Păiş , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Ştefan Trăuşan-Matu

Processing of multi-word expressions (MWEs) is a known problem for any natural language processing task. Even neural machine translation (NMT) struggles to overcome it. This paper presents results of experiments on investigating NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Matīss Rikters , Ondřej Bojar

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

With the fast development of Machine Translation (MT) systems, especially the new boost from Neural MT (NMT) models, the MT output quality has reached a new level of accuracy. However, many researchers criticised that the current popular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Lifeng Han

Multi-word expressions (MWEs) are a hot topic in research in natural language processing (NLP), including topics such as MWE detection, MWE decomposition, and research investigating the exploitation of MWEs in other NLP fields such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Lifeng Han , Gareth J. F. Jones , Alan F. Smeaton

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

Deep neural models, in particular Transformer-based pre-trained language models, require a significant amount of data to train. This need for data tends to lead to problems when dealing with idiomatic multiword expressions (MWEs), which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Dylan Phelps , Xuan-Rui Fan , Edward Gow-Smith , Harish Tayyar Madabushi , Carolina Scarton , Aline Villavicencio

Despite their success in a variety of NLP tasks, pre-trained language models, due to their heavy reliance on compositionality, fail in effectively capturing the meanings of multiword expressions (MWEs), especially idioms. Therefore,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Harish Tayyar Madabushi , Edward Gow-Smith , Carolina Scarton , Aline Villavicencio

The task of automatically detecting hate speech in social media is gaining more and more attention. Given the enormous volume of content posted daily, human monitoring of hate speech is unfeasible. In this work, we propose new word-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Nicolas Zampieri , Irina Illina , Dominique Fohr

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

This paper shines a light on the potential of definition-based semantic models for detecting idiomatic and semi-idiomatic multiword expressions (MWEs) in clinical terminology. Our study focuses on biomedical entities defined in the UMLS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 François Remy , Alfiya Khabibullina , Thomas Demeester

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

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

Massively multilingual sentence representation models, e.g., LASER, SBERT-distill, and LaBSE, help significantly improve cross-lingual downstream tasks. However, the use of a large amount of data or inefficient model architectures results…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Zhuoyuan Mao , Chenhui Chu , Sadao Kurohashi

Determining the intended sense of words in text - word sense disambiguation (WSD) - is a long standing problem in natural language processing. Recently, researchers have shown promising results using word vectors extracted from a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Dayu Yuan , Julian Richardson , Ryan Doherty , Colin Evans , Eric Altendorf
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