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How many multiword expressions do people know?

How many multiword expressions do people know? How Many Multiword Expressions Do People Know? KENNETH CHURCH, IBM What is a multiword expression (MWE) and how many are there? Mark Liberman gave a great invited talk at ACL-89, titled "How Many Words Do People Know?" where he spent the entire hour questioning the question. Many of the same questions apply to multiword expressions. What is a word? An expression? What is many? What is a person? What does it mean to know? Rather than answer these questions, this article will use them as Liberman did, as an excuse for surveying how such issues are addressed in a variety of fields: computer science, Web search, linguistics, lexicography, educational testing, psychology, statistics, and so on. Categories and Subject Descriptors: A.1 [General Literature]: Introductory and Survey; A.2 [General Literature]: Reference--Dictionaries; H.0 [Information Systems]: General--Surveys, reference, empirical studies General Terms: Design, Human Factors, Languages Additional Key Words and Phrases: Word, phrase, multiword expression, knowledge, intelligence, Web search ACM Reference Format: Church, K. 2013. How many multiword expressions do people know? ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process. 10, 2, Article 4 (June 2013), 13 pages. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2483691.2483693 1. INTRODUCTION: HOW MANY WORDS DO PEOPLE KNOW? As mentioned in the abstract, this article http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP) Association for Computing Machinery

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How Many Multiword Expressions Do People Know? KENNETH CHURCH, IBM What is a multiword expression (MWE) and how many are there? Mark Liberman gave a great invited talk at ACL-89, titled "How Many Words Do People Know?" where he spent the entire hour questioning the question. Many of the same questions apply to multiword expressions. What is a word? An expression? What is many? What is a person? What does it mean to know? Rather than answer these questions, this article will use them as Liberman did, as an excuse for surveying how such issues are addressed in a variety of fields: computer science, Web search, linguistics, lexicography, educational testing, psychology, statistics, and so on. Categories and Subject Descriptors: A.1 [General Literature]: Introductory and Survey; A.2 [General Literature]: Reference--Dictionaries; H.0 [Information Systems]: General--Surveys, reference, empirical studies General Terms: Design, Human Factors, Languages Additional Key Words and Phrases: Word, phrase, multiword expression, knowledge, intelligence, Web search ACM Reference Format: Church, K. 2013. How many multiword expressions do people know? ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process. 10, 2, Article 4 (June 2013), 13 pages. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2483691.2483693 1. INTRODUCTION: HOW MANY WORDS DO PEOPLE KNOW? As mentioned in the abstract, this article

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