Construction of English MWE dictionary and its application to POS tagging

Published in Workshop on Multiword Expressions @ NAACL, 2013

Yutaro Shigeto, Ai Azuma, Sorami Hisamoto, Shuhei Kondo, Tomoya Kose, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Akifumi Yoshimoto, Frances Yung, Yuji Matsumoto

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This paper reports our ongoing project for constructing an English multiword expression (MWE) dictionary and NLP tools based on the developed dictionary. We extracted functional MWEs from the English part of Wiktionary, annotated the Penn Treebank (PTB) with MWE information, and conducted POS tagging experiments. We report how the MWEannotation is done on PTB and the results of POS and MWE tagging experiments.