[Corpora-List] Incidence of MWEs

[Ed Kenschaft]

On 3/14/06, David Brooks <D.J.Brooks at cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has estimated the incidence of multi-word
> expressions in language.

Stanford's MWE Project might have an answer, I'm not sure.
http://mwe.stanford.edu/

See especially:
Baldwin, Timothy (2004) Multiword Expressions, Advanced course at the
Australasian Language Technology Summer School (ALTSS 2004), Sydney,
Australia.

On 3/14/06, Adam Kilgarriff <adam at lexmasterclass.com> wrote:
> *       is non-compositionality a part of the definition?

I would assume so.  However, I have not read any of the literature.

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Ed Kenschaft
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