🧷 Idioms & multiword expressions

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Phrases that mean more than their words: idioms, collocations, light verbs and phrasal verbs.

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26. Discriminative Lexical Semantic Segmentation with Gaps: Running the MWE GamutNathan Schneider, Emily Danchik, Chris Dyer, et al.2014 · 159 citations
27. A Report on the 2020 VUA and TOEFL Metaphor Detection Shared TaskChee Wee (Ben) Leong, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Chris Hamill, et al.2020 · 138 citations
28. FLUTE: Figurative Language Understanding through Textual ExplanationsTuhin Chakrabarty, Arkadiy Saakyan, Debanjan Ghosh, et al.2022 · 131 citations
29. Automatically Constructing a Lexicon of Verb Phrase Idiomatic CombinationsAfsaneh Fazly, Suzanne Stevenson2006 · 131 citations
30. Edition 1.1 of the PARSEME Shared Task on Automatic Identification of Verbal Multiword ExpressionsCarlos Ramisch, Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Agata Savary, et al.2018 · 124 citations
31. Comprehensive Annotation of Multiword Expressions in a Social Web CorpusNathan Schneider, Spencer Onuffer, Nora Kazour, et al.2014 · 120 citations
32. MAGPIE: A Large Corpus of Potentially Idiomatic ExpressionsHessel Haagsma, Johan Bos, Malvina Nissim2020 · 116 citations
33. A Corpus and Model Integrating Multiword Expressions and SupersensesNathan Schneider, Noah A. Smith2015 · 111 citations
34. SemEval-2022 Task 2: Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence EmbeddingHarish Tayyar Madabushi, Edward Gow-Smith, Marcos Garcia, et al.2022 · 108 citations
35. Can Transformer be Too Compositional? Analysing Idiom Processing in Neural Machine TranslationVerna Dankers, Christopher Lucas, Ivan Titov2022 · 105 citations
36. SemEval-2016 Task 10: Detecting Minimal Semantic Units and their Meanings (DiMSUM)Nathan Schneider, Dirk Hovy, Anders Johannsen, et al.2016 · 100 citations
37. It's not Rocket Science: Interpreting Figurative Language in NarrativesTuhin Chakrabarty, Yejin Choi, Vered Shwartz2022 · 91 citations
38. Probing for idiomaticity in vector space modelsMarcos Garcia, Tiago Kramer Vieira, Carolina Scarton, et al.2021 · 89 citations
39. AStitchInLanguageModels: Dataset and Methods for the Exploration of Idiomaticity in Pre-Trained Language ModelsHarish Tayyar Madabushi, Edward Gow-Smith, Carolina Scarton, et al.2021 · 86 citations
40. Multiword expressions: linguistic precision and reusabilityAnn Copestake, Fabre Lambeau, Aline Villavicencio, et al.2002 · 80 citations
41. Multiword Expressions in the wild? The mwetoolkit comes in handyCarlos Ramisch, Aline Villavicencio, Christian Boitet2010 · 69 citations
42. IMPLI: Investigating NLI Models' Performance on Figurative LanguageKevin Stowe, Prasetya Utama, Iryna Gurevych2022 · 68 citations
43. Idiom Token Classification using Sentential Distributed SemanticsGiancarlo Salton, Robert Ross, John Kelleher2016 · 65 citations
44. The Pragmatics behind Politics: Modelling Metaphor, Framing and Emotion in Political DiscoursePere-Lluís Huguet Cabot, Verna Dankers, David Abadi, et al.2020 · 64 citations
45. Understanding Transformer Memorization Recall Through IdiomsAdi Haviv, Ido Cohen, Jacob Gidron, et al.2023 · 62 citations
46. An Expert Lexicon Approach to Identifying English Phrasal VerbsWei Li, Xiuhong Zhang, Cheng Niu, et al.2003 · 50 citations
47. ID10M: Idiom Identification in 10 LanguagesSimone Tedeschi, Federico Martelli, Roberto Navigli2022 · 49 citations
48. Metaphor Understanding Challenge Dataset for LLMsXiaoyu Tong, Rochelle Choenni, Martha Lewis, et al.2024 · 47 citations
49. Edition 1.2 of the PARSEME Shared Task on Semi-supervised Identification of Verbal Multiword ExpressionsCarlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Bruno Guillaume, et al.2020 · 43 citations
50. Pulling their Weight: Exploiting Syntactic Forms for the Automatic Identification of Idiomatic Expressions in ContextPaul Cook, Afsaneh Fazly, Suzanne Stevenson2007 · 42 citations
51. Automatic Evaluation and Analysis of Idioms in Neural Machine TranslationChristos Baziotis, Prashant Mathur, Eva Hasler2023 · 40 citations
52. Detecting Compositionality in Multi-Word ExpressionsIoannis Korkontzelos, Suresh Manandhar2009 · 35 citations
53. Construction of English MWE Dictionary and its Application to POS TaggingYutaro Shigeto, Ai Azuma, Sorami Hisamoto, et al.2013 · 34 citations
54. Chinese Idiom ParaphrasingJipeng Qiang, Yang Li, Chaowei Zhang, et al.2023 · 31 citations
55. SemEval-2025 Task 1: AdMIRe - Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity RepresentationThomas Pickard, Aline Villavicencio, Maggie Mi, et al.2025 · 30 citations
56. Improving Surface-syntactic Universal Dependencies (SUD): MWEs and deep syntactic featuresKim Gerdes, Bruno Guillaume, Sylvain Kahane, et al.2019 · 30 citations
57. Cross-Cultural Similarity Features for Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning of Pragmatically Motivated TasksJimin Sun, Hwijeen Ahn, Chan Young Park, et al.2021 · 28 citations
58. A Hard Nut to Crack: Idiom Detection with Conversational Large Language ModelsFrancesca De Luca Fornaciari, Begoña Altuna, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, et al.2024 · 22 citations
59. Semantics of Multiword Expressions in Transformer-Based Models: A SurveyFilip Miletić, Sabine Schulte im Walde2024 · 20 citations
60. MWEs in Treebanks: From Survey to GuidelinesVictoria Rosén, Koenraad De Smedt, Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard, et al.2016 · 19 citations
61. Crossing the Threshold: Idiomatic Machine Translation through Retrieval Augmentation and Loss WeightingEmmy Liu, Aditi Chaudhary, Graham Neubig2023 · 17 citations
62. Comparative Study of Multilingual Idioms and Similes in Large Language ModelsParia Khoshtab, Danial Namazifard, Mostafa Masoudi, et al.2025 · 14 citations
63. Idioms in the Rosetta Machine Translation SystemAndre Schenk1986 · 14 citations
64. from Benign import Toxic: Jailbreaking the Language Model via Adversarial MetaphorsYu Yan, Sheng Sun, Zenghao Duan, et al.2025 · 12 citations
65. MWE as WSD: Solving Multiword Expression Identification with Word Sense DisambiguationJoshua Tanner, Jacob Hoffman2023 · 12 citations
66. Construction of an English Dependency Corpus incorporating Compound Function WordsAkihiko Kato, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yuji Matsumoto2016 · 12 citations
67. Multi-word expressions in textual inference: Much ado about nothing?Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Sebastian Padó, Christopher D. Manning2009 · 12 citations
68. Memorization or Reasoning? Exploring the Idiom Understanding of LLMsJisu Kim, Youngwoo Shin, Uiji Hwang, et al.2025 · 11 citations
69. Are Frequent Phrases Directly Retrieved like Idioms? An Investigation with Self-Paced Reading and Language ModelsGiulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Marco S. G. Senaldi, et al.2023 · 11 citations
70. How Are Idioms Processed Inside Transformer Language Models?Ye Tian, Isobel James, Hye Son2023 · 11 citations
71. IEKG: A Commonsense Knowledge Graph for Idiomatic ExpressionsZiheng Zeng, Kellen Tan Cheng, Srihari Venkat Nanniyur, et al.2023 · 11 citations
72. Comprehensive and Consistent PropBank Light Verb AnnotationClaire Bonial, Martha Palmer2016 · 10 citations
73. Edition 2.0 of the PARSEME shared task on multilingual identification and paraphrasing of multiword expressionsManon Scholivet, Agata Savary, Carlos Ramisch, et al.2026 · 9 citations
74. A Parallel Cross-Lingual Benchmark for Multimodal Idiomaticity UnderstandingDilara Torunoğlu-Selamet, Doğukan Arslan, Rodrigo Wilkens, et al.2026 · 8 citations
75. Metaphorical Expressions in Automatic Arabic Sentiment AnalysisIsraa Alsiyat, Scott Piao2020 · 8 citations
76. UMR Annotation of Multiword ExpressionsJulia Bonn, Andrew Cowell, Jan Hajič, et al.2023 · 7 citations
77. English Multiword Expression-aware Dependency Parsing Including Named EntitiesAkihiko Kato, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yuji Matsumoto2017 · 7 citations
78. A Lexical Resource of Hebrew Verb-Noun Multi-Word ExpressionsChaya Liebeskind, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner2016 · 6 citations
79. Unsupervised Construction of a Lexicon and a Repository of Variation Patterns for Arabic Modal Multiword ExpressionsRania Al-Sabbagh, Roxana Girju, Jana Diesner2014 · 6 citations
80. A Survey of Idiom Datasets for Psycholinguistic and Computational ResearchMichael Flor, Xinyi Liu, Anna Feldman2025 · 5 citations
81. Annotating Verbal Multiword Expressions in Arabic: Assessing the Validity of a Multilingual Annotation ProcedureNajet Hadj Mohamed, Cherifa Ben Khelil, Agata Savary, et al.2022 · 5 citations
82. Diachronic Analysis of Multi-word Expression Functional Categories in Scientific EnglishDiego Alves, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Elena Schmidt, et al.2024 · 4 citations
83. Neural Lemmatization of Multiword ExpressionsMarine Schmitt, Mathieu Constant2019 · 4 citations
84. PARSEME 2.0 Multilingual Corpus of Multiword ExpressionsAgata Savary, Manon Scholivet, Carlos Ramisch, et al.2026 · 3 citations
85. A Canonical Form for Flexible Multiword ExpressionsJan Odijk, Martin Kroon2024 · 3 citations
86. A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew PoetryMichael Toker, Oren Mishali, Ophir Münz-Manor, et al.2024 · 3 citations
87. No Context Needed: Contextual Quandary In Idiomatic Reasoning With Pre-Trained Language ModelsKellen Tan Cheng, Suma Bhat2024 · 3 citations
88. Analyzing the Turkish and Arabic Subtitle Translations of English Idioms in the Animated Movie Ice Age: The MeltdownArife Eray, Muammer Sarıkaya2023 · 3 citations
89. Are idioms surprising?J. Nathanael Philipp, Michael Richter, Erik Daas, et al.2023 · 3 citations
90. Token-level Identification of Multiword Expressions using Pre-trained Multilingual Language ModelsRaghuraman Swaminathan, Paul Cook2023 · 3 citations
91. Extracting Headless MWEs from Dependency Parse Trees: Parsing, Tagging, and Joint Modeling ApproachesTianze Shi, Lillian Lee2020 · 3 citations
92. Translating metaphors into Afrikaans in a source language-oriented translation of the Hebrew BibleVan der Merwe, Christo H. J., Elisabet Hendriks2006 · 3 citations
93. Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 20242024 · 2 citations
94. On Quick Kisses and How to Make Them Count: A Study on Event Construal in Light Verb Constructions with BERTChenxin Liu, Emmanuele Chersoni2023 · 2 citations
95. The Biblical Hebrew idiom ‘lift the face’ in the Septuagint of JobDouglas Mangum2018 · 2 citations
96. Semantically Motivated Hebrew Verb-Noun Multi-Word Expressions IdentificationChaya Liebeskind, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner2016 · 2 citations
97. Domain-Dependent Detection of Light Verb ConstructionsIstván T. Nagy, Gábor Berend, György Móra, et al.2011 · 2 citations
98. A framework for annotating and modelling intentions behind metaphor useGianluca Michelli, Xiaoyu Tong, Ekaterina Shutova2026 · 1 citation
99. Automatic Detection of Metaphorical Expressions in Classical Japanese Using WLSP-Enhanced BERTHang Zhu, Mitoki Ohara, Rei Kikuchi, et al.2026 · 1 citation
100. From Trial by Fire to Sleep like a Baby: A Lexicon of Anxiety Associations for 20K English Multi-Word ExpressionsSaif M. Mohammad2026 · 1 citation
101. ITUNLP at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2: A Zero-Shot LLM Pipeline for Multimodal Idiom Understanding and RankingAtakan Site, Oğuz Ali Arslan, Gülşen Eryiğit2026 · 1 citation
102. SinFoS: A Parallel Dataset for Translating Sinhala Figures of SpeechJohan Nevin Sofalas, Dilushri Pavithra, Nevidu Jayatilleke, et al.2026 · 1 citation
103. Surprisal and Metaphor Novelty Judgments: Moderate Correlations and Divergent Scaling Effects Revealed by Corpus-Based and Synthetic DatasetsOmar Momen, Emilie Sitter, Berenike Herrmann, et al.2026 · 1 citation
104. Tug-of-war between idioms' figurative and literal interpretations in LLMsSoyoung Oh, Xinting Huang, Mathis Pink, et al.2026 · 1 citation
105. Neo-Assyrian Metaphors through the Telescope: Linguistic Patterns involving Body Part Constructions in the State Archives Letter CorpusMatthew Ong, Shai Gordin2024 · 1 citation
106. The acquisition of Hebrew idioms: Stages, internal composition, and implications for storageJulie Fadlon, Julia Horvath, Tal Siloni, et al.2018 · 1 citation
107. A Curious Class of Adpositional Multiword Expressions in KoreanJunghyun Min, Na-Rae Han, Jena D. Hwang, et al.2026
108. A Novel Dataset and Three Ways to Approach Automatic Metaphor Detection in German Religious Online ForumsSebastian Reimann, Tatjana Scheffler2026
109. alexandru412 at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2.0: Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity RepresentationCristea Alexandru-Marian2026
110. AraMIP: Extending MIPVU Towards Metaphor Identification in ArabicMandar Marathe, Manar Ali, Sara Nabhani, et al.2026
111. Archaeology at MWE-2026 PARSEME 2.0 Subtasks 1 and 2: Parsing is for Encoders, Paraphrasing is for LLMsRares-Alexandru Roscan, Sergiu Nisioi2026
112. Artful Writing, Authentic Emotions: Distinguishing Human-Written from LLM-Generated Metaphors by Annotation and ClassificationMichaela Regneri, Nooshin Aghajari, Thomas Kroedel2026
113. Creation and Validation of a Monolingual Spanish NLI Dataset for Metaphor Interpretation via Model-in-the-LoopAlec Sanchez-Montero, Gemma Bel-Enguix, Sergio Luis Ojeda Trueba2026
114. DAMETA: An LLM Benchmark for Danish Metaphor Interpretation with Systematically Varied DistractorsNina Skovgaard Schneidermann, Sanni Nimb, Nathalie Carmen Hau Norman, et al.2026
115. Floating or Suggesting Ideas? A Large-Scale Contrastive Analysis of Metaphorical and Literal Verb–Object ConstructionsPrisca Piccirilli, Alexander Fraser, Sabine Schulte im Walde2026
116. Harder than Finding the Lost Sheep? Towards Automatically Suggesting Deliberate Metaphor Annotations in German SermonsRonja Laarmann-Quante, Stefanie Dipper2026
117. ID10M-JAM: Stress-Testing Idiom Identification Under Challenging ContextKai Golan Hashiloni, Lior Livyatan, Ofri Hefetz, et al.2026
118. Incorporating Multiword Expressions in Galician Neural Machine Translation: Compositionality, Efficiency, and PerformanceDaniel Solla, Paula Pinto-Ferro, Laura Castro, et al.2026
119. Introducing PerMet 1.0: A Metaphor-Annotated Corpus for PersianMohammad Saeid Miri2026
120. LST at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2: Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity RepresentationLe Qiu, Yu-Yin Hsu, Emmanuele Chersoni2026
121. Mapping Liberty Metaphors across Cultures and TimeSidney Suen, Rui Mao, Kenneth Kwok, et al.2026
122. Measuring Idiomaticity in Text Embedding Models with epsilon-compositionalitySondre Wold, Étienne Simon, Erik Velldal, et al.2026
123. Modelling Idiomatic Expressions in Abstract Meaning RepresentationVenera Gareeva, Johannes Heinecke2026
124. MorphoFiltered-Gemini at MWE-2026 PARSEME 2.0 Subtask 1: Tackling LLM Overgeneration via Universal POS-based ConstraintsIrina Moise, Sergiu Nisioi2026
125. Rethinking the Idiomaticity Decomposability Hypothesis: Evidence from Distributional LearningMaggie Mi, Golzar Atefi, Atsuki Yamaguchi, et al.2026

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