Multiword Expressions Acquisition A Generic and Open Framework

This book is an excellent introduction to multiword expressions. It provides a unique, comprehensive and up-to-date overview of this exciting topic in computational linguistics. The first part describes the diversity and richness of multiword expressions, including many examples in several languages...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramisch, Carlos
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
Series:Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1.Introduction
  • Part I.Multiword Expressions: a Though Nut to Crack
  • 2.Definitions and Characteristics
  • 3 State of the Art in MWE Processing
  • Part II.MWE Acquisition
  • 4.Evaluation of MWE Acquisition
  • 5.A New Framework for MWE Acquisition
  • Part III Applications
  • 6.Application 1: Lexicography
  • 7.Application 2: Machine Translation
  • 8.Conclusions
  • Appendixes
  • A.Extended List of Translation Examples
  • B.Resources Used in the Experiments
  • C.The mwetoolkit: Documentation
  • D.Tagsets for POS and syntax
  • E.Detailed Lexicon Descriptions