@inproceedings{alves-etal-2024-diachronic,
    title = "Diachronic Analysis of Multi-word Expression Functional Categories in Scientific {E}nglish",
    author = "Alves, Diego  and
      Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania  and
      Schmidt, Elena  and
      Teich, Elke",
    editor = {Bhatia, Archna  and
      Bouma, Gosse  and
      Do{\u{g}}ru{\"o}z, A. Seza  and
      Evang, Kilian  and
      Garcia, Marcos  and
      Giouli, Voula  and
      Han, Lifeng  and
      Nivre, Joakim  and
      Rademaker, Alexandre},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.mwe-1.12",
    pages = "81--87",
    abstract = "We present a diachronic analysis of multi-word expressions (MWEs) in English based on the Royal Society Corpus, a dataset containing 300+ years of the scientific publications of the Royal Society of London. Specifically, we investigate the functions of MWEs, such as stance markers ({``}is is interesting{''}) or discourse organizers ({``}in this section{''}), and their development over time. Our approach is multi-disciplinary: to detect MWEs we use Universal Dependencies, to classify them functionally we use an approach from register linguistics, and to assess their role in diachronic development we use an information-theoretic measure, relative entropy.",
}

We present a diachronic analysis of multi-word expressions (MWEs) in English based on the Royal Society Corpus, a dataset containing 300+ years of the scientific publications of the Royal Society of London. Specifically, we investigate the functions of MWEs, such as stance markers ({``}is is interesting{''}) or discourse organizers ({``}in this section{''}), and their development over time. Our approach is multi-disciplinary: to detect MWEs we use Universal Dependencies, to classify them functionally we use an approach from register linguistics, and to assess their role in diachronic development we use an information-theoretic measure, relative entropy.
Alves, Diego Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania Schmidt, Elena Teich, Elke
Diachronic Analysis of Multi-word Expression Functional Categories in Scientific English