PARSEME 2.0 Multilingual Corpus of Multiword Expressions

Agata Savary, Manon Scholivet, Carlos Ramisch, Takuya Nakamura, Eric Bilinski, Sara Stymne, Voula Giouli, Stella Markantonatou, Vasile Pais, Maria Mitrofan, Louis Estève, Bruno Guillaume, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Jaka Čibej, Roberto Díaz Hernández, Victoria Fendel, Polona Gantar, Olha Kanishcheva, Cvetana Krstev, Chaya Liebeskind, Irina Lobzhanidze, Aleksandra M. Marković, Gunta Nešpore-Bērzkalne, Adriana S. Pagano, Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Ranka Stankovic, Vahide Tajalli, Carole Tiberius, Aakanksha Padhye


Abstract
We present edition 2.0 of the PARSEME multilingual corpus annotated for multiword expressions (MWEs), resulting from efforts of the PARSEME community towards universality-driven modeling of idiomaticity. With respect to previous editions, we extend the annotation scope to all syntactic MWE categories: verbal, nominal, adjectival, adverbial and functional. We cover 17 languages, of which 7 are new. The annotation process is based on cross-lingually unified guidelines, phrased as decision diagrams over linguistic tests, and a typology of 18 MWE categories. The corpus contains almost 5 million tokens, over 250,000 sentences and 140,000 MWE annotations. The applicability of the corpus is tested in baseline experiments with a prompt-based MWE identification system. Results show that generic large language models do not encode sufficient knowledge to solve the MWE identification task.
Anthology ID:
2026.lrec-1.378
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Editors:
Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
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LREC
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ELRA Language Resource Association
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Pages:
4819–4834
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-main-378
DOI:
10.63317/2iy5qf38yhay
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Agata Savary, Manon Scholivet, Carlos Ramisch, Takuya Nakamura, Eric Bilinski, Sara Stymne, Voula Giouli, Stella Markantonatou, Vasile Pais, Maria Mitrofan, Louis Estève, Bruno Guillaume, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Jaka Čibej, Roberto Díaz Hernández, Victoria Fendel, Polona Gantar, Olha Kanishcheva, Cvetana Krstev, Chaya Liebeskind, Irina Lobzhanidze, Aleksandra M. Marković, Gunta Nešpore-Bērzkalne, Adriana S. Pagano, Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Ranka Stankovic, Vahide Tajalli, Carole Tiberius, and Aakanksha Padhye. 2026. PARSEME 2.0 Multilingual Corpus of Multiword Expressions. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4819–4834, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.
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PARSEME 2.0 Multilingual Corpus of Multiword Expressions (Savary et al., LREC 2026)
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