The role of constituents in multiword expressions: An interdisciplinary, cross-lingual perspective

Contents
Constituents in multiword expressions: What is their role, and why do we care?  Sabine Schulte im Walde & Eva Smolka
	1 Introduction
	2 Contributions
		2.1 Complex verbs
		2.2 Noun compounds
		2.3 Idioms
1 Aiming with → arrows ← at particles: Towards a conceptual analysis of directional meaning components in German particle verbs Sylvia Springorum, Sabine Schulte im Walde
	1 Introduction
	2 Particle meanings
		2.1 Basic particle meanings and contexts
		2.2 Spatial grounds of particle meanings
	3 Experiment
		3.1 Material
			3.1.1 Verb data
			3.1.2 Concept images
		3.2 Design
		3.3 Hypotheses
			3.3.1 ab
			3.3.2 an
			3.3.3 auf
			3.3.4 aus
			3.3.5 ein
			3.3.6 mit
			3.3.7 nach/vor
			3.3.8 zu
		3.4 Concept image selections
			3.4.1 Dataset
			3.4.2 Concept image selection across particles
			3.4.3 Concept image selection across existing PVs and PV neologisms
			3.4.4 Concept image selection across BV source domains
	4 Discussion
		4.1 General analysis of particle concept hypotheses
		4.2 Analysis of BV source domains
		4.3 Analysis of particle ab
	5 Conclusion
2 Do semantic features capture a syntactic classification of compounds? Insights from compositional distributional semantics Sandro Pezzelle & Marco Marelli
	1 Introduction
		1.1 Classifying compounds
		1.2 From word combination to conceptual combination
		1.3 Aim of the work
		1.4 Computational models of meaning
		1.5 Distributional semantics and compounds
		1.6 A compositional approach to compounds
	2 Experiment
		2.1 Semantic space
		2.2 Materials
		2.3 Generating composed representations
		2.4 Semantic variables
		2.5 Non-semantic variables
		2.6 Data analysis
	3 Results
		3.1 ATT vs SUB
		3.2 ATT vs CRD
		3.3 CRD vs SUB
		3.4 Overall results
	4 Discussion
		4.1 On the modifier-head similarity
		4.2 On the semantic role of compound constituents
		4.3 On attributive compounds
		4.4 On the methodology
		4.5 On the effectiveness of cDSMs in predicting compound relations
		4.6 Final remarks
3 Compositionality in English deverbal compounds: The role of the head Gianina Iordăchioaia, Lonneke van der Plas & Glorianna Jagfeld
	1 Introduction
		1.1 Deverbal compounds (DCs)
		1.2 Argument structure nominals and result nominals
		1.3 Compositionality and transparency in deverbal compounds
		1.4 Terminology
		1.5 Our contribution
	2 Previous literature
		2.1 Theoretical approaches to DCs
			2.1.1 Morphosyntactic properties of ASNs
			2.1.2 Deverbal compounds between ASNs and RNs: grimshaw:90
			2.1.3 Deverbal compounds between ASNs and RNs: borer:13
		2.2 Computational approaches to compounds
			2.2.1 Predicting the interpretation of deverbal compounds
			2.2.2 Predicting the degree of transparency in noun-noun compounds
	3 Methodology
		3.1 Corpus and tools
		3.2 Extraction of deverbal compounds
		3.3 Annotation and post-processing of DCs
			3.3.1 Interpretation of (non-heads in) DCs
			3.3.2 Process vs. result readings in DCs
	4 Feature selection
		4.1 Theoretical considerations
		4.2 Technical support
		4.3 Reliability of the extracted features
	5 Data exploration with machine learning techniques
	6 Discussion
		6.1 Interpretation of results
			6.1.1 Process-vs-result (P-R)
			6.1.2 of_outside_DC
			6.1.3 Suffix
			6.1.4 sg_outside_DC and sg_inside_DC
			6.1.5 head_in_DC (compoundhood)
			6.1.6 sum-adjectives and by-phrases
			6.1.7 Summary
		6.2 Implications for our hypothesis
		6.3 Comparison to other NLP approaches
	7 Conclusions
4 What can we learn from novel compounds? Gary Libben
	1 Background
		1.1 An illustrative example
		1.2 Questions of lexical constituent structure
		1.3 Ambiguous novel compounds and lexical superstates
		1.4 Fuzzy Forward Lexical Activation generates lexical superstate representations
		1.5 Typing as a window to morphological processing
	2 Method
		2.1 Participants
		2.2 Stimuli
	3 Apparatus and procedure
		3.1 The progressive demasking component
		3.2 The typing component
	4 Results
		4.1 Progressive demasking
		4.2 Typing
	5 General discussion
		5.1 Lexical superstates
		5.2 Action-based sublexical structure
		5.3 Action based lexical development is situation specific
5 Internal constituent variability and semantic transparency in N Prep N constructions in Romance languages Inga Hennecke
	1 Introduction
	2 Definition and classification of syntagmatic compounds
	3 Internal constituent variation in N Prep N constructions: The role of the preposition
	4 N Prep N constructions in construction grammar and morphology
	5 Qualitative corpus analysis
		5.1 The preposition de in N Prep N constructions
		5.2 Internal variation between de and a/à
		5.3 Internal variation between de and em/en
		5.4 Internal variation between de and pour/para
	6 Conclusion
6 Production of multiword referential phrases: Inclusion of over-specifying information and a preference for modifier-noun phrases Christina L. Gagné, Thomas L. Spalding, J. Claire Burry & Jessica Tellis Adams
	1 Introduction
		1.1 Aim and background
		1.2 Overview of the chapter
		1.3 What motivates the inclusion of modifying information?
		1.4 When modifying information is included, how is it expressed?
	2 Experiment
		2.1 Overview and rationale
		2.2 Method
			2.2.1 Participants
			2.2.2 Materials and procedure
		2.3 Results
	3 Discussion
		3.1 Including modifying information
		3.2 Selection of syntactic form
	4 Conclusion
7 Can you reach for the planets or grasp at the stars? Eva Smolka & Carsten Eulitz
	1 Introduction
	2 Experiment 1
		2.1 Method
			2.1.1 Participants
			2.1.2 Materials
				2.1.2.1 Sentence completion task
				2.1.2.2 Noun association test
				2.1.2.3 Paraphrases
			2.1.3 Procedure
		2.2 Results
	3 Experiment 2
		3.1 Method
			3.1.1 Participants
			3.1.2 Materials
				3.1.2.1 Verb association test
				3.1.2.2 Paraphrases and fillers
			3.1.3 Procedure
		3.2 Results
	4 Experiment 3
		4.1 Method
			4.1.1 Participants
			4.1.2 Materials
				4.1.2.1 Preposition substitution
				4.1.2.2 Paraphrases and fillers
			4.1.3 Procedure
		4.2 Results
	5 Post-hoc analysis of Experiments 1–3
	6 General discussion
	7 Conclusion
Index
	Name index