Classifying Multi–Word Expressions in the Latvian Monolingual Electronic Dictionary Tēzaurs.lv

Laura Rituma, Gunta Nešpore-Bērzkalne, Agute Klints, Ilze Lokmane, Madara Stāde, Pēteris Paikens


Abstract
The electronic dictionary Tēzaurs.lv contains more than 400,000 entries from which 73,000 entries are multi-word expressions (MWEs). Over the past two years, there has been an ongoing division of these MWEs into subgroups (proper names, multi-word terms, taxa, phraseological units, collocations). The article describes the classification of MWEs, focusing on phraseological units (approximately 7,250 entries), as well as on borderline cases of phraseological unit types (phrasemes and idioms) and different MWE groups in general. The division of phraseological units depends on semantic divisibility and figurativeness. In a phraseme, at least one of the constituents retains its literal sense, whereas the meaning of an idiom is not dependent on the literal sense of any of its constituents. As a result, 65919 entries of MWE have been manually classified, and now this information of MWE type is available for the users of the electronic dictionary Tēzaurs.lv.
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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024)
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2024
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Laura Rituma, Gunta Nešpore-Bērzkalne, Agute Klints, Ilze Lokmane, Madara Stāde, and Pēteris Paikens. 2024. Classifying Multi–Word Expressions in the Latvian Monolingual Electronic Dictionary Tēzaurs.lv. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024), pages 113–118, Sofia, Bulgaria. Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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