Forbidden FRUIT is the Sweetest: An Annotated Tweets Corpus for French Unfrozen Idioms Identification
Julien Bezançon, Gaël Lejeune, Antoine Gautier, Marceau Hernandez, Félix Alié
Abstract
Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a key area of interest in NLP, studied across various languages and inspiring the creation of dedicated datasets and shared tasks such as PARSEME. Puns in multiword expressions (PMWEs) can be described as MWEs that have been “unfrozen” to acquire a new meaning or create a wordplay. Unlike MWEs, they have received little attention in NLP, mainly due to the lack of resources available for their study. In this context, we introduce the French Unfrozen Idioms in Tweets (FRUIT) corpus, a dataset of tweets spanning three years and comprising 60,617 tweets containing both MWEs and PMWE candidates. We first describe the process of constructing this corpus, followed by an overview of the manual annotation task performed by three experts on 600 tweets, achieving a maximum α score of 0.83. Insights from this manual annotation process were then used to develop a Game With A Purpose (GWAP) to annotate more tweets from the FRUIT corpus. This GWAP aims to enhance players’ understanding of MWEs and PMWEs. Currently, 13 players made 2,206 annotations on 931 tweets, reaching an α score of 0.70. In total, 1,531 tweets from the FRUIT corpus have been annotated.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.law-1.6
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Vienna, Austria
- Editors:
- Siyao Peng, Ines Rehbein
- Venues:
- LAW | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 70–86
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.law-1.6/
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2025.law-1.6
- Cite (ACL):
- Julien Bezançon, Gaël Lejeune, Antoine Gautier, Marceau Hernandez, and Félix Alié. 2025. Forbidden FRUIT is the Sweetest: An Annotated Tweets Corpus for French Unfrozen Idioms Identification. In Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025), pages 70–86, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Forbidden FRUIT is the Sweetest: An Annotated Tweets Corpus for French Unfrozen Idioms Identification (Bezançon et al., LAW 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.law-1.6.pdf