Definitions and Characteristics

In this chapter, we discuss definitions and properties of MWEs and we present a brief introduction to the research field of automatic MWE treatment. Although we include pointers toward linguistic and psycholinguistic studies, most of the related work cited in this chapter has a strong computational background.

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