@inproceedings{gamallo-garcia-2019-unsupervised,
    title = "Unsupervised Compositional Translation of Multiword Expressions",
    author = "Gamallo, Pablo  and
      Garcia, Marcos",
    editor = "Savary, Agata  and
      Escart{\'i}n, Carla Parra  and
      Bond, Francis  and
      Mitrovi{\'c}, Jelena  and
      Mititelu, Verginica Barbu",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Florence, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Ingest-2025-COMPUTEL/W19-5106/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-5106",
    pages = "40--48",
    abstract = "This article describes a dependency-based strategy that uses compositional distributional semantics and cross-lingual word embeddings to translate multiword expressions (MWEs). Our unsupervised approach performs translation as a process of word contextualization by taking into account lexico-syntactic contexts and selectional preferences. This strategy is suited to translate phraseological combinations and phrases whose constituent words are lexically restricted by each other. Several experiments in adjective-noun and verb-object compounds show that mutual contextualization (co-compositionality) clearly outperforms other compositional methods. The paper also contributes with a new freely available dataset of English-Spanish MWEs used to validate the proposed compositional strategy."
}