Semantically Motivated Hebrew Verb-Noun Multi-Word Expressions Identification

Chaya Liebeskind, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner


Abstract
Identification of Multi-Word Expressions (MWEs) lies at the heart of many natural language processing applications. In this research, we deal with a particular type of Hebrew MWEs, Verb-Noun MWEs (VN-MWEs), which combine a verb and a noun with or without other words. Most prior work on MWEs classification focused on linguistic and statistical information. In this paper, we claim that it is essential to utilize semantic information. To this end, we propose a semantically motivated indicator for classifying VN-MWE and define features that are related to various semantic spaces and combine them as features in a supervised classification framework. We empirically demonstrate that our semantic feature set yields better performance than the common linguistic and statistical feature sets and that combining semantic features contributes to the VN-MWEs identification task.
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C16-1118
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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1242–1253
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Chaya Liebeskind and Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner. 2016. Semantically Motivated Hebrew Verb-Noun Multi-Word Expressions Identification. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 1242–1253, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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