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Dominic Widdows

Dominic Widdows has 2 papers in our library, in 2002–2003, most of them on Idioms & multiword expressions; often with Colin Bannard, Takaaki Tanaka, Timothy Baldwin.

2 papers in our library · 2002–2003

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 26 · 111 works · 2,910 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 164 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2949

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 Affiliations

🏢MicrosoftRedmond · United States2012–2016 · 15 papers🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States2002–2007 · 13 papers🏢IonQCollege Park · United States2022–2025 · 9 papers🏢GoogleMountain View · United States2009–2011 · 9 papers🏢MAYA DesignPittsburgh · United States2005–2006 · 8 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksDevelopmental and Educational Psychology · 1 workPsychology · 1 work

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Idioms & multiword expressions · 1 work

 Works by year

2000s

20031 paperAn Empirical Model of Multiword Expression Decomposability20021 paperA Graph Model for Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. An Empirical Model of Multiword Expression Decomposability (2003 · 319 citations)
    The paper looks for a way to estimate how far a multiword expression's meaning derives from its parts. The goal is to separate "simple decomposable" MWEs (e.g. traffic light ) from idiosyncratically decomposable and non-decomposable ones (e.g. spill the beans , kick the bucket ). The authors build a latent semantic…
  2. A Graph Model for Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition (2002 · 318 citations)
    Hand-built lexicons such as WordNet have gaps in fast-moving domains, cover few languages besides English, and miss senses that matter in a given corpus.

 Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 164 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 17 citing papers with a page here →.

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