# Overview of MWE history, challenges, and horizons: standing at the 20th anniversary of the MWE workshop series via MWE-UD2024

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18868 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.18868/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 3 of its 31 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 25 Dec 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Mischievous Nominal Constructions in Universal Dependencies](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.12928/) (2021)
- [MultiMWE: Building a Multi-lingual Multi-Word Expression (MWE) Parallel Corpora](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.10583/) (2020)
- [Topic Aware Probing: From Sentence Length Prediction to Idiom Identification how reliant are Neural Language Models on Topic?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.02009/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [MetaHOPE: A Metaphor-Oriented Evaluation Framework for Analysing MT and LLM Translation Errors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.00848/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Starting in 2003 when the first MWE workshop was held with ACL in Sapporo, Japan, this year, the joint workshop of MWE-UD co-located with the LREC-COLING 2024 conference marked the 20th anniversary of MWE workshop events over the past nearly two decades. Standing at this milestone, we look back to this workshop series and summarise the research topics and methodologies researchers have carried out over the years. We also discuss the current challenges that we are facing and the broader impacts/synergies of MWE research within the CL and NLP fields. Finally, we give future research perspectives. We hope this position paper can help researchers, students, and industrial practitioners interested in MWE get a brief but easy understanding of its history, current, and possible future.