non-compositional

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non-compositional

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adjective noncompositional

Not compositional. Any natural language processing system that does not have a knowledge of non-compositional idioms and their interpretation will make mistakes. Previous authors have attempted to automatically identify these expressions through the property of non-substitutability: similar words cannot be successfull
Opposite: compositional

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@misc{non_compositional_2026,
  title = {non-compositional},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/non-compositional},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}