Caroline Pasquer

Verbal Multiword Expression Identification: Do We Need a Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut?

Automatic identification of multiword expressions (MWEs), like ‘to cut corners’ (to do an incomplete job), is a pre-requisite for semantically-oriented downstream applications. This task is challenging because MWEs, especially verbal ones (VMWEs), exhibit surface variability. This paper deals with a…