Fitting Fixed Expressions into the UD Mould: Swedish as a Use Case
2024 (English)In: Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024 / [ed] Archna Bhatia, Gosse Bouma, A. Seza Doğruöz, Kilian Evang, Marcos Garcia, Voula Giouli, Lifeng Han, Joakim Nivre, Alexandre Rademaker, 2024, p. 33-42-Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Fixed multiword expressions are common in many, if not all, natural languages. In the Universal Dependenciesframework, UD, a subset of these expressions are modelled with the dependency relation fixed, targeting themost grammaticalized cases of functional multiword items. In this paper we perform a detailed analysis of 439expressions modelled with fixed in two Swedish UD treebanks in order to reduce their numbers and fit thedefinition of fixed better. We identify a large number of dimensions of variation for fixed multiword expressionsthat can be used for the purpose. We also point out several problematic aspects of the current UD approachto multiword expressions and discuss different alternative solutions for modelling fixed expresions. We suggestthat insights from Constructional Grammar (CxG) can help with a more systematic treatment of fixed expressions in UD.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2024. p. 33-42-
Keywords [en]
fixed expressions, multiword expressions, Swedish, Universal dependencies
National Category
Language Technology (Computational Linguistics)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-205225OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-205225DiVA, id: diva2:1874743
Conference
Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italy, May 25, 2024.
Funder
Swedish Research Council, P2017-00626_VR2024-06-202024-06-202024-06-27Bibliographically approved