@inproceedings{alves-etal-2025-syntagmatic,
    title = "Syntagmatic Productivity of {MWE}s in Scientific {E}nglish",
    author = "Alves, Diego  and
      Fischer, Stefan  and
      Teich, Elke",
    editor = {Ojha, Atul Kr.  and
      Giouli, Voula  and
      Mititelu, Verginica Barbu  and
      Constant, Mathieu  and
      Korvel, Gra{\v{z}}ina  and
      Do{\u{g}}ru{\"o}z, A. Seza  and
      Rademaker, Alexandre},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2025)",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.mwe-1.1/",
    pages = "1--6",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-243-5",
    abstract = "This paper presents an analysis of the syntagmatic productivity (SynProd) of different classes of multiword expressions (MWEs) in English scientific writing over time (mid 17th to 20th c.). SynProd refers to the variability of the syntagmatic context in which a word or other kind of linguistic unit is used. To measure SynProd, we use entropy. The study reveals that, similar to single-token units of various parts of speech, MWEs exhibit an increasing trend in syntagmatic productivity over time, particularly after the mid-19th century. Furthermore, when compared to similar parts of speech (PoS), MWEs show a more pronounced increase in SynProd over time."
}