Lexicography-Semantics

This is a summary of the PhD thesis written by Uxoa Iñurrieta under the supervision of Dr. Gorka Labaka and Dr. Itziar Aduriz. Full title of the PhD thesis in Basque: "Izena+aditza Unitate Fraseologikoak gaztelaniatik euskarara: azterketa eta tratamendu konputazionala". The defense was held in San Sebastian on November 29, 2019. The doctoral committee was integrated by Ricardo Etxepare (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Margarita Alonso (Universidad de Coruña) and Miren Azkarate (University of the Basque Country).

The combination of visual and textual representations has produced excellent results in tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering, but the inference capabilities of multimodal representations are largely untested.
In the case of textual representations, inference tasks such as Textual Entailment and Semantic Textual Similarity have been often used to benchmark the quality of textual representations.

Multiword Expressions (MWEs) are combinations of words which exhibit some kind of idiosyncrasy. Due to their idiosyncratic nature, they pose several problems to Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this PhD, two of the most challenging tasks concerning MWE processing are addressed: the automatic identification of MWE occurrences in corpora and their translation in Machine Translation (MT).