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Chapter 12. A comprehensive Japanese MWE lexicon

JMWEL
  • Masahito Takahashi , Toshifumi Tanabe , Jack Halpern and Kosho Shudo
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Recent Advances in Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology
This chapter is in the book Recent Advances in Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology

Abstract

JMWEL (Japanese MWE Lexicon) is a comprehensive lexicon of Japanese Multiword Expressions (MWEs) with a rich set of grammatical attributes fine-tuned for phrase-based processing of a wide range of Japanese documents. It has about 160,000 MWE lemmas covering almost every kind of linguistically idiosyncratic but commonly used Japanese phrases, e.g., idioms, quasi-idioms, collocations, quasi-collocations, clichés, quasi-clichés, institutionalized phrases, proverbs, and old sayings, excepting technical terms in specialized fields or named entities. JMWEL consists of sixteen sub-lexicons reflecting their distinctive features. The comprehensiveness of the collected MWEs and the detailed morpho-syntactic information given to each MWE, which may include internal modifiers, are notable features of JMWEL. In this paper, we introduce the newest version of JMWEL.

Abstract

JMWEL (Japanese MWE Lexicon) is a comprehensive lexicon of Japanese Multiword Expressions (MWEs) with a rich set of grammatical attributes fine-tuned for phrase-based processing of a wide range of Japanese documents. It has about 160,000 MWE lemmas covering almost every kind of linguistically idiosyncratic but commonly used Japanese phrases, e.g., idioms, quasi-idioms, collocations, quasi-collocations, clichés, quasi-clichés, institutionalized phrases, proverbs, and old sayings, excepting technical terms in specialized fields or named entities. JMWEL consists of sixteen sub-lexicons reflecting their distinctive features. The comprehensiveness of the collected MWEs and the detailed morpho-syntactic information given to each MWE, which may include internal modifiers, are notable features of JMWEL. In this paper, we introduce the newest version of JMWEL.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Section 1. Computational treatment of multiword units
  5. Chapter 1. Multi-word units in neural machine translation 2
  6. Chapter 2. ReGap 18
  7. Chapter 3. Evaluating the Italian-English machine translation quality of MWUs in the domain of archaeology 40
  8. Chapter 4. Post-editing neural machine translation in specialised languages 57
  9. Chapter 5. Evaluating a bracketing protocol for multiword terms 79
  10. Section 2. Corpus-based and linguistic studies in phraseology
  11. Chapter 6. Suggestions for a new model of functional phraseme categorization for applied purposes 104
  12. Chapter 7. Verb collocations and their semantics in the specialized language of science 124
  13. Chapter 8. Negative–positive adjective pairing in travel journalism in English, Italian, and Polish 141
  14. Chapter 9. The middle construction and some machine translation issues 156
  15. Chapter 10. Semantic annotation of named rivers and its application for the prediction of multiword-term bracketing 173
  16. Chapter 11. Irony in American-English tweets 197
  17. Chapter 12. A comprehensive Japanese MWE lexicon 218
  18. Chapter 13. Ontology-based formalisation of Italian clitic verbal MWEs 243
  19. Index 263
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.366.12tak

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Section 1. Computational treatment of multiword units
  5. Chapter 1. Multi-word units in neural machine translation 2
  6. Chapter 2. ReGap 18
  7. Chapter 3. Evaluating the Italian-English machine translation quality of MWUs in the domain of archaeology 40
  8. Chapter 4. Post-editing neural machine translation in specialised languages 57
  9. Chapter 5. Evaluating a bracketing protocol for multiword terms 79
  10. Section 2. Corpus-based and linguistic studies in phraseology
  11. Chapter 6. Suggestions for a new model of functional phraseme categorization for applied purposes 104
  12. Chapter 7. Verb collocations and their semantics in the specialized language of science 124
  13. Chapter 8. Negative–positive adjective pairing in travel journalism in English, Italian, and Polish 141
  14. Chapter 9. The middle construction and some machine translation issues 156
  15. Chapter 10. Semantic annotation of named rivers and its application for the prediction of multiword-term bracketing 173
  16. Chapter 11. Irony in American-English tweets 197
  17. Chapter 12. A comprehensive Japanese MWE lexicon 218
  18. Chapter 13. Ontology-based formalisation of Italian clitic verbal MWEs 243
  19. Index 263
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