Topic: How Many Multiword Expressions People Know?

Speaker: Dr. Kenneth W. Church IBM

Date: 13:30 to 15:00. Wednesday, 19-Sep-2012

Place: 103 Delta Building (台達館)

Abstract:

What is a multiword expression (MWE) and how many are there? What is a MWE?
What is many? 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 these same questions apply to multiword expressions. What is a
word? What is many? What is a person? What does it mean to know? Rather
than answer these questions, this paper will use these questions 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, etc.


All faculty and students are welcome to attend.