*MWELex - MWE Lexica of Croatian, Slovene and Serbian Extracted from
Nikola Ljubeöi, Ivana Lu, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Darja Fiöer · 2015
The paper presents *MWELex, a multilingual lexical of Croatian, Slovene and Serbian multi-word expressions that were extracted from parsed corpora. The lexica were built with the custom-built DepMWEx tool which uses dependency syntactic patterns to identify MWE candidates in parse trees. The extracted MWE candidates are subsequently scored by co-occurrence and organized by headwords producing a resource of 23 to 48 thousand headwords and 3.2 to 12 million MWE candidates per language. Similarly, precision over specific syntactic patterns varies greatly, 0.167-0.859 for Croatian, 0.158-1.00 for Slovene. The possible extension of the tool is demonstrated on a simplistic distributional-based extraction of non-transparent MWEs and cross-lingual linking of the extracted lexicons.