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'''Multiword Expressions''' or '''MWE''' are "a sequence of words that acts as a single unit at some level of linguistic analysis, with some of the following features:
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'''Multiword Expressions''' or '''MWE''' are "a sequence of words that acts as a single unit at some level of linguistic analysis"<ref>Nicoleta Calzolari, Charles Fillmore, Ralph Grishman, Nancy Ide, Alessandro Lenci, Catherine Macleod, and Antonio Zampolli. 2002. Towards best practice for multiword expressions in computational lexicons. In Proc. of the Third LREC (LREC 2002), pages 1934–1940, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, May. ELRA.</ref> or that may have "idiosyncratic interpretations that cross word boundaries (or spaces)"<ref>Ivan Sag, Timothy Baldwin, Francis Bond, Ann Copestake, and Dan Flickinger. 2002. Multiword expressions: A pain in the neck for NLP. In Proc. of the 3rd CICLing (CICLing-2002), volume 2276/2010 of LNCS, pages 1–15, Mexico City, Mexico, Feb. Springer</ref>.
*reduced syntactic and/or semantic transparency;
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*reduced compositionality;
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*more or less frozen status;
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*violation of general syntactic rules;
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*high degree of lexicalisation;
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*high degree of conventionality"<ref>Nicoleta Calzolari, Charles Fillmore, Ralph Grishman, Nancy Ide, Alessandro Lenci, Catherine Macleod, and Antonio Zampolli. 2002. Towards best practice for multiword expressions in computational lexicons. In Proc. of the Third LREC (LREC 2002), pages 1934–1940, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, May. ELRA.</ref>
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Revision as of 20:51, 11 July 2013

Multiword Expressions or MWE are "a sequence of words that acts as a single unit at some level of linguistic analysis"[1] or that may have "idiosyncratic interpretations that cross word boundaries (or spaces)"[2].


References

  1. Nicoleta Calzolari, Charles Fillmore, Ralph Grishman, Nancy Ide, Alessandro Lenci, Catherine Macleod, and Antonio Zampolli. 2002. Towards best practice for multiword expressions in computational lexicons. In Proc. of the Third LREC (LREC 2002), pages 1934–1940, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, May. ELRA.
  2. Ivan Sag, Timothy Baldwin, Francis Bond, Ann Copestake, and Dan Flickinger. 2002. Multiword expressions: A pain in the neck for NLP. In Proc. of the 3rd CICLing (CICLing-2002), volume 2276/2010 of LNCS, pages 1–15, Mexico City, Mexico, Feb. Springer
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