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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Multiword Expressions"”.
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Automatic identification and translation of multiword expressions
Multiword Expressions (MWEs) belong to a class of phraseological phenomena that is ubiquitous in the study of language. They are heterogeneous lexical items consisting of more than one word and feature lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic idiosyncrasies. Scholarly research on MWEs benefits …
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"Knowing a thing is ""a thing"": The use of acoustic features in multiword expression extraction"
… often on the level of non-literal, idiomatic expressions like black sheep. Typically, datasets of these so-called multiword expressions come from hand-crafted ontologies or lexicons, because identifying expressions like these in an unsupervised manner is still an unsolved problem in natural …
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Contributions to the Computational Treatment of Non-literal Language
… are studied; namely, irony, non-compositional Multiword Expressions (MWEs), and metaphor. We start by developing models to identify ironic comments in the context of the social micro-blogging website Twitter. In these experiments, we proposed a new way to extract features based on a study of …
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English complex verb constructions: identification and inference
… is examined with its frequent appearance of Multiword Expressions (MWEs) whose meaning is not based on the meaning of their parts. MWEs occur in all text genres and are far more frequent and productive than are generally recognized, and pose serious difficulties for every kind of NLP …
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Remembering you read “doctoral dissertation”: Phrase frequency effects in recall and recognition memory
Speakers understand and produce common words like cat more easily than less common words like panther. Similarly, this pattern of behavior shows up at larger levels, processing common combinations of words like alcoholic beverages more quickly than less common ones like psychic nephew. As a result, …
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Sentence initial bundles in L2 thesis writing: A comparative study of Chinese L2 and New Zealand L1 postgraduates’ writing
Multiword combinations perform a crucial role in signifying fluency, accuracy and idiomaticity in academic writing. Lexical bundles are recurrent, but not salient, multi-word combinations, for example, on the other hand, the fact that the, and it should be noted. They are important as they act as …