Idiomatic expressions are plentiful in everyday language, yet they remain mysterious, as it is
not clear exactly how people learn and understand them. They are of special interest to …

We investigate the lexical and syntactic flexibility of a class of idiomatic expressions. We
develop measures that draw on such linguistic properties, and demonstrate that these …

Because most multiword expressions (MWEs), especially verbal ones, are semantically non-
compositional, their automatic identification in running text is a prerequisite for semantically …

This article investigates how formulaic sequences fi t into a constructionist approach to
grammar, which is a major post-Chomskyan family of approaches to linguistic structure. The …

In this paper we investigate the automatic acquisition of Arabic Multiword Expressions
(MWE). We propose three complementary approaches to extract MWEs from available data …

The aim of this paper is to present PARSEME, a COST Action devoted to the issue of
Multiword Expressions in parsing and in linguistic resources (corpora, lexicons). This is a …

Idioms, conceived as fixed multi-word expressions that conceptually encode non-
compositional meaning, are linguistic units that raise a number of questions relevant in the …

This article describes the design and implementation of a Dutch Electronic Lexicon of
Multiword Expressions (DuELME). DuELME describes the core properties of over 5,000 …

In this chapter we describe a linked bilingual (Bulgarian and Romanian) computational
lexicon of multiword expressions, a new resource which encompasses lexical …

We describe several experiments whose goal is to automatically identify idiomatic
expressions in written text. We explore two approaches for the task: 1) idiom recognition as …