Project SemVarMWE

since 2025

Prof. Dr. Sabine Schulte im Walde

SemVarMWE defines a multi-faceted programme regarding computational models of semantic variation of multiword expressions across speakers and languages. We provide three levels of analysis across a broad range of target languages: Germanic (English, German), Romance (French, Italian, Spanish) and Slavic (BCMS: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian): (i) cross-lingual variation, comparing general usage across all target languages; (ii) regional variation, comparing country-level varieties for one language per family (English, Spanish, BCMS); (iii) sociodemographic and register variation, focusing on fine-grained distinctions in US English. Our overall aim is to establish gold standards and machine-learning approaches that capture the same types of MWEs across broader as well as more specific language varieties, deploying them to quantify differences in cross-variety MWE prominence.

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)