Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a class of linguistic forms spanning conventional word
boundaries that are both idiosyncratic and pervasive across different languages. The …

Idiomatic expressions are plentiful in everyday language, yet they remain mysterious, as it is
not clear exactly how people learn and understand them. They are of special interest to …

A multiword is compositional if its meaning can be expressed in terms of the meaning of its
constituents. In this paper, we collect and analyse the compositionality judgments for a …

We propose an unsupervised method for distinguishing literal and non-literal usages of
idiomatic expressions. Our method determines how well a literal interpretation is linked to …

Idioms are phrases which present a figurative meaning that cannot be (completely) derived
by looking at the meaning of their individual components. Identifying and understanding …

Idiomatic expressions formed from a verb and a noun in its direct object position are a
productive cross-lingual class of multiword expressions, which can be used both …

In this paper, we investigate a supervised machine learning framework for automatically
learning of English Light Verb Constructions (LVCs). Our system achieves an 86.3 …

We address the problem of classifying multiword expression tokens in running text. We focus
our study on Verb-Noun Constructions (VNC) that vary in their idiomaticity depending on …

We describe an algorithm for automatic classification of idiomatic and literal expressions.
Our starting point is that words in a given text segment, such as a paragraph, that are …

Non-compositionality of multiword expressions is an intriguing problem that can be the
source of error in a variety of NLP tasks such as language generation, machine translation …