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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

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 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

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

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

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) 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

We report experiments about the syntactic variations of support verb constructions, a special type of multiword expressions (MWEs) containing predicative nouns. In these expressions, the noun can occur with or without the verb, with no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-02-19 Eric Laporte , Elisabete Ranchhod , Anastasia Yannacopoulou

This report introduces \texttt{EEVE-Korean-v1.0}, a Korean adaptation of large language models that exhibit remarkable capabilities across English and Korean text understanding. Building on recent highly capable but English-centric LLMs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Seungduk Kim , Seungtaek Choi , Myeongho Jeong

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

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

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 introduces EVOKE (Emotion Vocabulary of Korean and English), a Korean-English parallel dataset of emotion words. The dataset offers comprehensive coverage of emotion words in each language, in addition to many-to-many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yoonwon Jung , Hagyeong Shin , Benjamin K. Bergen

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

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

Large language models (LLMs) trained on massive corpora demonstrate impressive capabilities in a wide range of tasks. While there are ongoing efforts to adapt these models to languages beyond English, the attention given to their evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Guijin Son , Hanwool Lee , Suwan Kim , Huiseo Kim , Jaecheol Lee , Je Won Yeom , Jihyu Jung , Jung Woo Kim , Songseong Kim

In this work, we introduce the construction of a machine translation (MT) assisted and human-in-the-loop multilingual parallel corpus with annotations of multi-word expressions (MWEs), named AlphaMWE. The MWEs include verbal MWEs (vMWEs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Lifeng Han , Najet Hadj Mohamed , Malak Rassem , Gareth Jones , Alan Smeaton , Goran Nenadic

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

The impressive development of large language models (LLMs) is expanding into the realm of large multimodal models (LMMs), which incorporate multiple types of data beyond text. However, the nature of multimodal models leads to significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Dongjae Shin , Hyeonseok Lim , Inho Won , Changsu Choi , Minjun Kim , Seungwoo Song , Hangyeol Yoo , Sangmin Kim , Kyungtae Lim

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
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