Re: [Corpora-List] Incidence of MWEs

From: Ed Kenschaft (ekenschaft@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 14:35:48 MET

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    On 3/14/06, David Brooks <D.J.Brooks@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
    > I was wondering if anyone has estimated the incidence of multi-word
    > expressions in language.

    Stanford's MWE Project might have an answer, I'm not sure.
    http://mwe.stanford.edu/

    See especially:
    Baldwin, Timothy (2004) Multiword Expressions, Advanced course at the
    Australasian Language Technology Summer School (ALTSS 2004), Sydney,
    Australia.

    On 3/14/06, Adam Kilgarriff <adam@lexmasterclass.com> wrote:
    > * is non-compositionality a part of the definition?

    I would assume so. However, I have not read any of the literature.

    --
    Ed Kenschaft
    Ph.D. student, University of Maryland
    ekenschaft@gmail.com
    www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/kensch/
    



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