Recent advances in text mining have provided new methods for capitalizing on the
voluminous natural language text data created by organizations, their employees, and their …

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a class of linguistic forms spanning conventional word
boundaries that are both idiosyncratic and pervasive across different languages. The …

Building meaningful phrase representations is challenging because phrase meanings are
not simply the sum of their constituent meanings. Lexical composition can shift the meanings …

Idiomatic expressions are an integral part of natural language and constantly being added to
a language. Owing to their non-compositionality and their ability to take on a figurative or …

Nominal compounds such as red wine and nut case display a continuum of compositionality,
with varying contributions from the components of the compound to its semantics. This article …

Defining words in a textual context is a useful task both for practical purposes and for
gaining insight into distributed word representations. Building on the distributional …

Idiomatic expressions (IEs), characterized by their non-compositionality, are an important
part of natural language. They have been a classical challenge to NLP, including pre-trained …

The majority of studies on detecting idiomatic expressions have focused on discovering
potentially idiomatic expressions overlooking the context. However, many idioms like blow …

The paper aims to establish a synergy between the lexicographic and natural language
processing (NLP) communities in relation to concepts and classifications of multiword …

Idiomatic expressions (IEs) play an essential role in natural language. In this paper, we
study the task of idiomatic sentence paraphrasing (ISP), which aims to paraphrase a …