PARSEME multilingual corpus of verbal multiword expressions

Agata Savary*, Marie Candito, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Eduard Bejček, Fabienne Cap, Slavomír Čéplö, Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Gülşen Eryiğit, Voula Giouli, Maarten van Gompel, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Jolanta Kovalevskaite, Simon Krek, Chaya Liebeskind, Johanna Monti, Carla Parra Escartín, Lonneke van der Plas, Behrang QasemiZadeh, Carlos Ramisch, Federico SangatiIvelina Stoyanova, Veronika Vincze

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Abstract

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are known as a "pain in the neck" due to their idiosyncratic behaviour. While some categories of MWEs have been largely studied, verbal MWEs (VMWEs) such as to take a walk, to break one's heart or to turn off have been relatively rarely modelled. We describe an initiative meant to bring about substantial progress in understanding, modelling and processing VMWEs. In this joint effort carried out within a European research network we elaborated a universal terminology and annotation methodology for VMWEs. Its main outcomes, available under open licenses, are unified annotation guidelines, and a corpus of over 5.4 million words and 62 thousand annotated VMWEs in 18 languages.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMultiword expressions at length and in depth
Subtitle of host publicationExtended papers from the MWE 2017 workshop
PublisherLanguage Science Press
Pages87-147
Number of pages61
ISBN (Electronic)9783961101238
ISBN (Print)9783961101245
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Jun 2018

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