@inproceedings{padhye-vaidya-2026-lock,
    title = "The Lock, Stock, and Barrel of {M}arathi Multiwords",
    author = "Padhye, Aakanksha  and
      Vaidya, Ashwini",
    editor = {Ojha, Atul Kr.  and
      Mititelu, Verginica Barbu  and
      Constant, Mathieu  and
      Stoyanova, Ivelina  and
      Do{\u{g}}ru{\"o}z, A. Seza  and
      Rademaker, Alexandre},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Multiword Expressions ({MWE} 2026)",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Marocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/manual-author-scripts/2026.mwe-1.11/",
    pages = "96--102",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-363-0",
    abstract = "Multiword expressions are an important area of study in linguistics and natural language processing as they represent combination of words that function as a single unit, and display properties that cannot be predicated fully from their individual components. This paper describes annotated corpora of about 3000 multiword expressions across syntactic categories in Marathi. This is the first exhaustive resource for Marathi which includes both verbal and non-verbal multiwords. In order to develop the guidelines for annotation, we have used the existing literature on the identification and classification of these expressions. Following the PARSEME 2.0 guidelines, we discuss the categories of multiwords and their behaviour in the corpus. Throughout the annotation process, we encounter variability in compositionality and syntactic realization and discuss our design decisions during annotation. Such a dataset will further our understanding of how grammatical structure can be integrated with lexically stored multiword units in Marathi."
}