--- title: "Edition 1.2 of the PARSEME Shared Task on — Ramisch 2020" description: "Verbal multiword expressions (VMWEs), such as idioms, light verb constructions and particle verbs, must be located in text before deeper semantic analysis." authors: ["Carlos Ramisch", "Agata Savary", "Bruno Guillaume", "Jakub Waszczuk", "Marie Candito", "Ashwini Vaidya", "Verginica Barbu Mititelu", "Archna Bhatia", "Uxoa Iñurrieta", "Voula Giouli", "Tunga Güngör", "Menghan Jiang", "Timm Lichte", "Chaya Liebeskind", "Johanna Monti", "Renata Ramisch", "Sara Stymne", "Abigail Walsh", "Hongzhi Xu"] year: 2020 venue: "Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons" source: "https://aclanthology.org/2020.mwe-1.14/" licence: "CC BY 4.0 (ACL Anthology)" licence_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" summary_licence: "Elamur Cosmic License" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/papers/ramisch-2020-edition-1-2-parseme-shared/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/papers/ramisch-2020-edition-1-2-parseme-shared/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/) / [papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/papers/) / [2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/papers/2020/page/2/) / Edition 1.2 of the PARSEME Shared Task on Semi-supervised Identification of Verbal Multiword Expressions # Edition 1.2 of the PARSEME Shared Task on Semi-supervised Identification of Verbal Multiword Expressions **Authors:** [Carlos Ramisch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/authors/carlos-ramisch/), [Agata Savary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/authors/agata-savary/), [Bruno Guillaume](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/authors/bruno-guillaume/), Jakub Waszczuk, [Marie Candito](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/authors/marie-candito/), Ashwini Vaidya, [Verginica Barbu Mititelu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/authors/verginica-barbu-mititelu/), [Archna Bhatia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/authors/archna-bhatia/), Uxoa Iñurrieta, [Voula Giouli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/authors/voula-giouli/), [Tunga Güngör](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/authors/tunga-gungor/), Menghan Jiang et al. (19 authors) · **Year:** 2020 · **Venue:** Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons · **Licence:** [CC BY 4.0 (ACL Anthology)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) **Links:** [Publisher's page](https://aclanthology.org/2020.mwe-1.14/) · [PDF](https://aclanthology.org/2020.mwe-1.14.pdf) · [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/W6929242035) **Citations:** 0 citations (openalex-snapshot · 2026-10-14) · [42](#cited-by) in our library, of the 140673 papers whose bibliographies we read ## Summary Verbal multiword expressions (VMWEs), such as idioms, light verb constructions and particle verbs, must be located in text before deeper semantic analysis. Earlier PARSEME campaigns found that ambiguity between idiomatic and literal readings is rarely the real obstacle. The hard part is detecting expressions that never appeared in the annotated training material. Edition 1.2 therefore reorganises the shared task around these unseen VMWEs. The organisers released VMWE-annotated corpora for 14 languages, including new data for Chinese and Irish and a freshly annotated Swedish corpus. All morphosyntactic layers were aligned with UD version 2. Each test set was built to contain about 300 expressions absent from both train and dev, and raw corpora were supplied to encourage semi-supervised discovery. Seven teams submitted nine runs. The strongest open-track system clearly exceeded the best unseen score from edition 1.1, though the organisers caution that the two editions are not strictly comparable. The analysis also shows that a language's proportion of unseen expressions predicts system quality far better than training set size, which is useful guidance for building future resources. ## Key points - **Coverage and participation:** The data cover 14 languages (EU, DE, EL, GA, FR, HI, HE, PL, IT, RO, PT, TR, SV, ZH) and can be downloaded from hdl.handle.net/11234/1-3367. Seven teams submitted 9 results: 2 in the closed track and 7 in the open track. - **Definition of "unseen":** A VMWE counts as unseen if its multiset of lexicalised lemmas was never annotated in train or dev combined. Each test set holds roughly 300 such items. Morphosyntax is either manual or produced by UDPipe trained on UD 2.5. - **Unseen-VMWE results:** MTLB-STRUCT reached an unseen F1 of 38.53 in the open track, compared with 28.46 for SHOMA in edition 1.1. TRAVIS-mono achieved 60.19 on Chinese, where a simple two-rule baseline already reaches 27.33. - **Global results:** Overall MWE-based F1 exceeded 66 in the closed track and 70 in the open track, compared with 54 and 58 in edition 1.1. Seen2Seen, a rule-based closed-track system, ranked second overall across both tracks. - **What predicts performance:** The best F1 per language correlates strongly with that language's unseen ratio (Pearson −0.90). It correlates only weakly with training size (0.23). *Our summary of the paper, in our own words — not its text. The work belongs to its authors; read it at the links above.* Fields: [Linguistics & languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/shelves/linguistics/) ## Cited by Cited by 42 papers of our library cite it (of the 140673 whose bibliographies we read); 4 of them have a page here, 38 not yet. - [ID10M-JAM: Stress-Testing Idiom Identification Under Challenging Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/papers/hashiloni-2026-id10m-jam-stress-testing-idiom/) - [PARSEME 2.0 Multilingual Corpus of Multiword Expressions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/papers/savary-2026-parseme-2-0-multilingual-corpus/) - [Edition 2.0 of the PARSEME shared task on multilingual identification and paraphrasing of multiword expressions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/papers/scholivet-2026-edition-2-0-parseme-shared/) - [Token-level Identification of Multiword Expressions using Pre-trained Multilingual Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/papers/swaminathan-2023-token-level-identification-multiword-expressions/) ## Cite The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. ```bibtex @inproceedings{ramisch2020edition, title = {{Edition 1.2 of the PARSEME Shared Task on Semi-supervised Identification of Verbal Multiword Expressions}}, author = {Ramisch, Carlos and Savary, Agata and Guillaume, Bruno and Waszczuk, Jakub and Candito, Marie and Vaidya, Ashwini and Mititelu, Verginica Barbu and Bhatia, Archna and Iñurrieta, Uxoa and Giouli, Voula and Güngör, Tunga and Jiang, Menghan and Lichte, Timm and Liebeskind, Chaya and Monti, Johanna and Ramisch, Renata and Stymne, Sara and Walsh, Abigail and Xu, Hongzhi}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons}, year = {2020}, doi = {10.48448/1wgq-xb32}, url = {https://doi.org/10.48448/1wgq-xb32} } ``` - [← previous DuSQL: A Large-Scale and Pragmatic Chinese Text-to-SQL Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/papers/wang-2020-dusql-large-scale-pragmatic-chinese/) - [next → Efficient Content-Based Sparse Attention with Routing Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/papers/roy-2020-efficient-content-based-sparse-attention/) - [↑ back to papers of 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/papers/2020/page/2/) ## References 12 references, 4 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet. 1. 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