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title = "A Long Hard Look at {MWE}s in the Age of Language Models",
author = "Shwartz, Vered",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2021)",
month = aug,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.mwe-1.1",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.mwe-1.1",
pages = "1",
abstract = "In recent years, language models (LMs) have become almost synonymous with NLP. Pre-trained to {``}read{''} a large text corpus, such models are useful as both a representation layer as well as a source of world knowledge. But how well do they represent MWEs? This talk will discuss various problems in representing MWEs, and the extent to which LMs address them: {\mbox{$\bullet$}} Do LMs capture the implicit relationship between constituents in compositional MWEs (from baby oil through parsley cake to cheeseburger stabbing)? {\mbox{$\bullet$}} Do LMs recognize when words are used nonliterally in non-compositional MWEs (e.g. do they know whether there are fleas in the flea market)? {\mbox{$\bullet$}} Do LMs know idioms, and can they infer the meaning of new idioms from the context as humans often do?",
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[A Long Hard Look at MWEs in the Age of Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/2021.mwe-1.1) (Shwartz, MWE 2021)
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