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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) 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) 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The amount of information in the form of features and variables avail- able to machine learning algorithms is ever increasing. This can lead to classifiers that are prone to overfitting in high dimensions, high di- mensional models do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Aaron Karper

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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
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