Multiword expressions : a pain in the neck for NLP

• 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
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...