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

This study provides an empirical analysis of productivity in Light Verb Constructions (LVCs)
in the history of American English. LVCs contain a semantically light verb like make or take …

Light verb constructions (LVCs) in English and Romance languages are somewhat unique
crosslinguistically because LVCs in these languages tend to have semantically similar …

Recognizing and categorizing lexical collocations in context is useful for language learning,
dictionary compilation and downstream NLP. However, it is a challenging task due to the …

We examine the binary classification of sentiment views for verbal multiword expressions
(MWEs). Sentiment views denote the perspective of the holder of some opinion. We …

In this paper, we propose the use of Message Sequence Charts (MSC) as a representation
for visualizing narrative text in Hindi. An MSC is a formal representation allowing the …

The speech of native speakers is full of idiosyncrasies. Especially prominent are lexically
restricted binary word co-occurrences of the type high esteem, strong tea, run [an] …

This paper presents a method of automatic construction extraction from a large corpus of
Russian. The term 'construction'here means a multi-word expression in which a variable can …

Light verb constructions (LVC) are an interesting phenomenon that occurs in many
languages. It is a category of verbal Multiword Expressions (MWE) and has the canonical …

Abstract English light verb constructions (LVCs), such as have a drink, make an offer, take a
bath, do an investigation, and give a groan, represent a powerfully expressive resource of …