Report on the lexical representation of subclasses of MWEs

The Effect of Semantic Transfer on Iranian EFL Learners’ Lexical Representation and Processing

Multiword Expressions in NLP: General Survey and a Special Case of Verb-Noun Constructions

This chapter presents a survey of contemporary NLP research on Multiword Expressions (MWEs). MWEs pose a huge problem to precise language processing due to their idiosyncratic nature and diversity of their semantic, lexical, and syntactical properties. The chapter begins by considering MWEs definitions, describes some MWEs classes, indicates problems MWEs generate in language applications and t...

A Transition-Based System for Joint Lexical and Syntactic Analysis

We present a transition-based system that jointly predicts the syntactic structure and lexical units of a sentence by building two structures over the input words: a syntactic dependency tree and a forest of lexical units including multiword expressions (MWEs). This combined representation allows us to capture both the syntactic and semantic structure of MWEs, which in turn enables deeper downs...

Lexical idiosyncrasy in MWE extraction

A wide scale of different NLP methods have been investigated for the extraction of Multiword Expressions from large corpora. While a good deal of recent research has been focusing on the development of reliable means to delineate different subclasses of MWEs with respect to the degree of their compositionality (Baldwin et al., 2003; McCarthy et al., 2003), it has been generally accepted that fo...

Design and Implementation of a Lexicon of Dutch Multiword Expressions

This paper describes the design and implementation of a lexicon of Dutch multiword expressions (MWEs). No exhaustive research on a standard lexical representation of MWEs has been done for Dutch before. The approach taken is innovative, since it is based on the Equivalence Class Method. Furthermore, the selection of the lexical entries and their properties is corpus-based. The design of the lex...