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Detecting Non-compositional MWE Components using Wiktionary

B Salehi, P Cook, T BALDWIN

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods In Natural Language Processing | Association for Computational Linguistics | Published : 2014

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Abstract

We propose a simple unsupervised approach to detecting non-compositional components in multiword expressions based onWiktionary. The approach makes use of the definitions, synonyms and translations in Wiktionary, and is applicable to any type of MWE in any language, assuming the MWE is contained in Wiktionary. Our experiments show that the proposed approach achieves higher F-score than state-of-the-art methods.

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