| Challenge: | MWE Finder is an application to search for flexible multiword expressions in text corpora. |
| Approach: | They introduce and demonstrate an application to search for flexible multiword expressions in Dutch text corpora. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can find flexible multiword expressions in large text corpus faster and more reliable than other search applications. |
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| Challenge: | Until now, no well-defined canonical form exists for MWEs in Dutch . traditional dictionaries do not use a canonically form but an example to illustrate MWE . |
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CoAM: Corpus of All-Type Multiword Expressions (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing bilingual or multi-lingual MWE corpora are limited for multilingual use . only 871 pairs of English-German MWEs are available for research . |
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| Challenge: | 7000 languages worldwide are spoken, but most research is focused on English . multilinguality is essential for multilingual research, and is a key component of the process. |
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for paraphrasing multiword expressions in context are unsupervised . multiwords are notoriously difficult to model because the meaning of the whole can diverge substantially from that of the component words. |
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Verbal Multiword Expression Identification: Do We Need a Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut? (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Multiword expressions (MWEs) are word combinations idiosyncratic with respect to syntax or semantics. |
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