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In this paper, we describe methods for handling multilingual non-compositional constructions in the framework of GF. We specifically look at methods to detect and extract non-compositional phrases from parallel texts and propose methods to handle such constructions in GF grammars. We expect that the methods to handle non-compositional constructions will enrich CNLs by providing more flexibility in the design of controlled languages. We look at two specific use cases of non-compositional constructions: a general-purpose method to detect and extract multilingual multiword expressions and a procedure to identify nominal compounds in German. We evaluate our procedure for multiword expressions by performing a qualitative analysis of the results. For the experiments on nominal compounds, we incorporate the detected compounds in a full SMT pipeline and evaluate the impact of our method in machine translation process.
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Enache, R., Listenmaa, I., Kolachina, P. (2014). Handling Non-compositionality in Multilingual CNLs. In: Davis, B., Kaljurand, K., Kuhn, T. (eds) Controlled Natural Language. CNL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8625. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10223-8_14
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