Multiword expressions : a pain in the neck for NLP

Multiword expressions : a pain in the neck for NLP

Multiword expressions are a key problem for the development of large-scale, linguistically sound natural language processing technology. This paper surveys the problem and some currently available analytic techniques. The various kinds of multiword expressions should be a...

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Main Authors: Sag, Ivan A., Baldwin, Timothy, Bond, Francis, Copestake, Ann, Flickinger, Dan
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2011
Subjects:
DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79581
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6828
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Multiword expressions are a key problem for the development of large-scale, linguistically sound natural language processing technology. This paper surveys the problem and some currently available analytic techniques. The various kinds of multiword expressions should be analyzed in distinct ways, including listing “words with spaces”, hierarchically organized lexicons, restricted combinatoric rules, lexical selection, “idiomatic constructions” and simple statistical affinity. An adequate comprehensive analysis of multiword expressions must employ both symbolic and statistical techniques.

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