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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

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) 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The domain of Botany is rich with metaphorical terms. Those terms play an important role in the description and identification of flowers and plants. However, the identification of such terms in discourse is an arduous task. This leads in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Amal Haddad Haddad , Damith Premasiri , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Ruslan Mitkov

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Recent advancements in attention mechanisms have replaced recurrent neural networks and its variants for machine translation tasks. Transformer using attention mechanism solely achieved state-of-the-art results in sequence modeling. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Prakhar Thapak , Prodip Hore

Modern scientific and technological advances allow botanists to use computer vision-based approaches for plant identification tasks. These approaches have their own challenges. Leaf classification is a computer-vision task performed for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Ali Beikmohammadi , Karim Faez , Ali Motallebi
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