• DOI:10.1007/3-540-59040-4_19
Corpus ID: 44678772

Description and Acquisition of Multiword Lexemes

@inproceedings{Storrer1993DescriptionAA,
  title={Description and Acquisition of Multiword Lexemes},
  author={Angelika Storrer and Ulrike Schwall},
  booktitle={EAMT Workshop},
  year={1993}
}

Angelika Storrer, Ulrike Schwall

Published in EAMT Workshop 1993

Computer Science

This paper deals with multiword lexemes (MWLs), focussing on two types of verbal MWLs: verbal idioms and support verb constructions. We discuss the characteristic properties of MWLs, namely nonstandard compositionality, restricted substitutability of components, and restricted morpho-syntactic flexibility, and we show how these properties may cause serious problems during the analysis, generation, and transfer steps of machine translation systems. In order to cope with these problems, MT… CONTINUE READING

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