AI RESEARCH
Evaluating the Impact of Verbal Multiword Expressions on Machine Translation
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2508.17458v2 Announce Type: replace Verbal multiword expressions (VMWEs) remain difficult for machine translation because their meanings are often not recoverable from their component words. In this study, we analyze the impact of three VMWE categories -- verbal idioms, verb-particle constructions, and light verb constructions -- on machine translation quality from English to multiple languages. Using both established multiword expression datasets and standard machine translation datasets, we evaluate how state-of-the-art translation systems handle these expressions.