Multiword Expressions Acquisition A Generic and Open Framework /

• Main Author: Ramisch, Carlos (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Artificial intelligence.; Text processing (Computer science).; Computational linguistics.; Computer Science.; Document Preparation and Text Processing.; Computational Linguistics.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

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...

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.