The treatment of multiword expressions (MWEs), like take off, bus stop and big deal, is a
challenge for NLP applications. This kind of linguistic construction is not only arbitrary but …

In this thesis, a subtype of multiword expressions, namely, semi-compositional constructions
will be analyzed from the perspectives of theoretical and computational linguistics. Multiword …

Light verb constructions consist of a verbal and a nominal component, where the noun
preserves its original meaning while the verb has lost it (to some degree). They are …

This paper describes the fuzzy boundaries between support verb constructions (SVC) in
Brazilian Portuguese (BP) with'ter'('have') and'dar'('give') and causative operator verb …

RESUMO A construção de bases de dados com informações lexicais pode ser considerada
uma tarefa essencial para o Processamento de Línguas Naturais (PLN), pois os dados ali …

Cet article présente et évalue une plate-forme ouverte et flexible pour l'acquisition
automatique d'expressions polylexicales (EPL) à partir des corpus monolingues. Nous …

Computer tools can help discover new phraseological units in corpora, thanks to their ability
to quickly draw statistics from large amounts of textual data. While the research community …

Este artigo tem como foco o uso dos verbos-suporte dar/levar, seguido de nomes
predicativos, em orações que estabeleçam a relação N0 dar Npred em N1= N1 levar Npred …

This paper describes the study on nominal predicates with the support verbs
'dar'(give),'fazer'(make/do) and 'ter'(have) of Brazilian Portuguese. The nominal predicates …

Based on a lexicon of Portuguese MWE, this presentation focuses on an ongoing work that
aims at the creation of a typology that describes these expressions taking into account their …