Much previous research on multiword expressions (MWEs) has focused on the token-and typelevel tasks of MWE identification and extraction, respectively. Such studies typically target known prevalent MWE types in a given language. This paper describes the first attempt to learn the MWE inventory of a "surprise" language for which we have no explicit prior knowledge of MWE patterns, certainly no annotated MWE data, and not even a parallel corpus. Our proposed model is trained on a treebank with MWE relations of a source language, and can be applied to the monolingual corpus of the surprise language to identify its MWE construction types.
REF identify MWE in a surprise target language with no prior knowledge of MWE patterns, using training on a UD MWE-aware treebank of a source language.
Determining the Multiword Expression Inventory of a Surprise Language
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Computer Science