TY - T1 - Optimizing the description of multi-word expressions in English SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/317503 T3 - Technical Reports of Language Technology A1 - Hurskainen, Arvi A2 - PB - University of Helsinki, Institute for Asian and African Studies Y1 - 2020 LA - eng AB - The description of multi-word expressions (MWE) is a necessary phase in rule-based machine translation. Because the concept MWE contains several types of word clusters, it is not self-evident how they should be described. One approach is that the isolation of multi-words is carried out after the morphological analysis, but before disambiguation. If the POS ambiguity of the language is minimal, this method is suitable, and perhaps also optimal. In case the POS ambiguity of the language is extensi... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 6121 Languages N1 - PP - ER -