Ruslan Mitkov, Johanna Monti, Gloria Corpas Pastor, and Violeta Seretan (eds): Multiword units in machine translation and translation technology

The book Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology demonstrates the importance of multiword units (MWUs) in natural language processing (NLP) applications, and explores computational treatments of how they can be handled in NLP, particularly in machine translation (MT) and translation technology. Thebookwas editedbyRuslanMitkov (University ofWolverhampton), JohannaMonti (L’Orientale University of Naples), Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Málaga), and Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva) who are renowned researchers in NLP and computational linguistics. The book contains twelve chapters including an introductory chapter compiled by the editors of the book themselves. The remaining eleven chapters were contributed by NLP researchers and experts in the field, and each of these chapters investigates specific problems relating to MWUs. The introductory chapter (Chap. 1) has same title as the the book itself (Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology), and presents a survey of the field with particular attention to MT and translation technology. At the start of the chapter, the authors present a comprehensive definition of MWUs with an example: “Multiword units or multiword expressions are meaningful lexical units made of two or more words in which at least one of them is restricted by linguistic conventions in the sense that it is not freely chosen. For example, in the expression to ‘smell a rat’ the