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Introduction to the special issue on multiword expressions: From theory to practice and use
We are in 2013, and multiword expressions have been around for a while in the computational linguistics research community. Since the first ACL workshop on MWEs 12 years ago in Sapporo, Japan, much has been discussed, proposed, experimented, evaluated ...
How many multiword expressions do people know?
What is a multiword expression (MWE) and how many are there? Mark Liberman gave a great invited talk at ACL-89, titled “How Many Words Do People Know?” where he spent the entire hour questioning the question. Many of the same questions apply to ...
Lexical semantic factors in the acceptability of english support-verb-nominalization constructions
We explore the properties of support-verb and nominalization (SVN) pairs in English, a type of multiword expression in which a semantically impoverished verb combines with a complement nominalization sharing an unexpressed role with the verb. This study ...
Learning to detect english and hungarian light verb constructions
Light verb constructions consist of a verbal and a nominal component, where the noun preserves its original meaning while the verb has lost it (to some degree). They are syntactically flexible and their meaning can only be partially computed on the ...
Modeling the internal variability of multiword expressions through a pattern-based method
The issue of internal variability of multiword expressions (MWEs) is crucial towards their identification and extraction in running text. We present a corpus-supported and computational study on Italian MWEs, aimed at defining an automatic method for ...
