Processing MWEs: Neurocognitive Bases of Verbal MWEs and Lexical Cohesiveness within MWEs

Shohini Bhattasali, Murielle Fabre, John Hale


Abstract
Multiword expressions have posed a challenge in the past for computational linguistics since they comprise a heterogeneous family of word clusters and are difficult to detect in natural language data. In this paper, we present a fMRI study based on language comprehension to provide neuroimaging evidence for processing MWEs. We investigate whether different MWEs have distinct neural bases, e.g. if verbal MWEs involve separate brain areas from non-verbal MWEs and if MWEs with varying levels of cohesiveness activate dissociable brain regions. Our study contributes neuroimaging evidence illustrating that different MWEs elicit spatially distinct patterns of activation. We also adapt an association measure, usually used to detect MWEs, as a cognitively plausible metric for language processing.
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W18-4904
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Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018)
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August
Year:
2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Agata Savary, Carlos Ramisch, Jena D. Hwang, Nathan Schneider, Melanie Andresen, Sameer Pradhan, Miriam R. L. Petruck
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LAW | MWE
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SIGLEX | SIGANN
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6–17
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Shohini Bhattasali, Murielle Fabre, and John Hale. 2018. Processing MWEs: Neurocognitive Bases of Verbal MWEs and Lexical Cohesiveness within MWEs. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018), pages 6–17, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Processing MWEs: Neurocognitive Bases of Verbal MWEs and Lexical Cohesiveness within MWEs (Bhattasali et al., LAW-MWE 2018)
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