Abstract
Multiword Expressions (MWEs) display some kind of linguistic and statistical markedness that may influence the effectiveness of techniques that automatically identify them in texts. While parsing-based techniques for MWE identification are considered to be better at handling long-distance dependencies, passivization and internal modification, statistics-based techniques use association measures to detect statistical markedness regardless of syntactic form. In this paper we compare these two approaches focusing on nominal compounds in Portuguese. We compare the accuracy of each method and propose that combining the strengths of both for increased accuracy.
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Parsing increased the number of tokens from 49 to 67 million words as contractions like those involving preposition and determiner are expanded to de + o by the parser (e.g. do (of the)).
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Among the 100 top candidates from each process, some were already validated in the automatic validation step. The manual validation was applied only to those MWE candidates that were not prevalidated.
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This research was partially developed in the context of the project Text Simplification of Complex Expressions, sponsored by Samsung Eletrônica da Amazônia Ltda., in the terms of the Brazilian law n. 8.248/91. This work was also partly supported by CNPq (482520/2012-4, 312114/2015-0) and FAPERGS.
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Zilio, L., Wilkens, R., Möllmann, L., Wehrli, E., Cordeiro, S., Villavicencio, A. (2016). Joining Forces for Multiword Expression Identification. In: Silva, J., Ribeiro, R., Quaresma, P., Adami, A., Branco, A. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9727. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_23
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