A New Multiword Expression Metric and Its Applications

【摘要】 <正>Multiword Expressions(MWEs) appear frequently and ungrammatically in natural languages.Identifying MWEs in free texts is a very challenging problem.This paper proposes a knowledge-free,unsupervised,and language-independent Multiword Expression Distance(MED).The new metric is derived from an accepted physical principle,measures the distance from an n-gram to its semantics,and outperforms other state-of-the-art methods on MWEs in two applications: question answering and named entity extraction.更多还原

【Abstract】 Multiword Expressions(MWEs) appear frequently and ungrammatically in natural languages.Identifying MWEs in free texts is a very challenging problem.This paper proposes a knowledge-free,unsupervised,and language-independent Multiword Expression Distance(MED).The new metric is derived from an accepted physical principle,measures the distance from an n-gram to its semantics,and outperforms other state-of-the-art methods on MWEs in two applications: question answering and named entity extraction.更多还原