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title = "Diachronic Analysis of Multi-word Expression Functional Categories in Scientific {E}nglish",
author = "Alves, Diego and
Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania and
Schmidt, Elena and
Teich, Elke",
editor = {Bhatia, Archna and
Bouma, Gosse and
Do{\u{g}}ru{\"o}z, A. Seza and
Evang, Kilian and
Garcia, Marcos and
Giouli, Voula and
Han, Lifeng and
Nivre, Joakim and
Rademaker, Alexandre},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024",
month = may,
year = "2024",
address = "Torino, Italia",
publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.mwe-1.12",
pages = "81--87",
abstract = "We present a diachronic analysis of multi-word expressions (MWEs) in English based on the Royal Society Corpus, a dataset containing 300+ years of the scientific publications of the Royal Society of London. Specifically, we investigate the functions of MWEs, such as stance markers ({``}is is interesting{''}) or discourse organizers ({``}in this section{''}), and their development over time. Our approach is multi-disciplinary: to detect MWEs we use Universal Dependencies, to classify them functionally we use an approach from register linguistics, and to assess their role in diachronic development we use an information-theoretic measure, relative entropy.",
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%T Diachronic Analysis of Multi-word Expression Functional Categories in Scientific English
%A Alves, Diego
%A Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania
%A Schmidt, Elena
%A Teich, Elke
%Y Bhatia, Archna
%Y Bouma, Gosse
%Y Doğruöz, A. Seza
%Y Evang, Kilian
%Y Garcia, Marcos
%Y Giouli, Voula
%Y Han, Lifeng
%Y Nivre, Joakim
%Y Rademaker, Alexandre
%S Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024
%D 2024
%8 May
%I ELRA and ICCL
%C Torino, Italia
%F alves-etal-2024-diachronic
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%P 81-87
Markdown (Informal)
[Diachronic Analysis of Multi-word Expression Functional Categories in Scientific English](https://aclanthology.org/2024.mwe-1.12) (Alves et al., MWE-UDW-WS 2024)
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