@inproceedings{bhattasali-etal-2018-processing,
    title = "Processing {MWE}s: Neurocognitive Bases of Verbal {MWE}s and Lexical Cohesiveness within {MWE}s",
    author = "Bhattasali, Shohini  and
      Fabre, Murielle  and
      Hale, John",
    editor = "Savary, Agata  and
      Ramisch, Carlos  and
      Hwang, Jena D.  and
      Schneider, Nathan  and
      Andresen, Melanie  and
      Pradhan, Sameer  and
      Petruck, Miriam R. L.",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions ({LAW}-{MWE}-{C}x{G}-2018)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W18-4904/",
    pages = "6--17",
    abstract = "Multiword expressions have posed a challenge in the past for computational linguistics since they comprise a heterogeneous family of word clusters and are difficult to detect in natural language data. In this paper, we present a fMRI study based on language comprehension to provide neuroimaging evidence for processing MWEs. We investigate whether different MWEs have distinct neural bases, e.g. if verbal MWEs involve separate brain areas from non-verbal MWEs and if MWEs with varying levels of cohesiveness activate dissociable brain regions. Our study contributes neuroimaging evidence illustrating that different MWEs elicit spatially distinct patterns of activation. We also adapt an association measure, usually used to detect MWEs, as a cognitively plausible metric for language processing."
}