Collocation is a common language phenomenon which has attracted the interest of
researchers in many subfields of both theoretical and computational linguistics. Although …

Over the last decades, second/foreign language acquisition (S/FLA) has become an ever
larger, more diverse, and more productive discipline. This evolution notwithstanding, for …

Multiword expressions (MWE), a known nui-sance for both linguistics and NLP, blur the lines
between syntax and semantics. Previous work on MWE identification has relied primar-ily on …

The paper surveys overlap between corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics.
Corpus linguistics is customarily defined as a methodology that bases claims about …

Idiomatic expressions (IE) play an important role in natural language, and have long been a
“pain in the neck” for NLP systems. Despite this, text generation tasks related to IEs remain …

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 …

Corpus-based studies have brought fresh insights into the role of collocability and lexico-
grammatical patterning as core aspects of language permeating its structure and use. Facets …

Natural language processing (NLP) plays a vital role in modern medical informatics. It
converts narrative text or unstructured data into knowledge by analyzing and extracting …

This paper addresses the impact of multiword translation errors in machine translation (MT).
We have analysed translations of multiwords in the OpenLogos rule-based system (RBMT) …

We are in 2013, and multiword expressions have been around for a while in the
computational linguistics research community. Since the first ACL workshop on MWEs 12 …