Title: Multiword Expressions By Timothy Baldwin Abstract: Multiword expressions (MWEs) are word amalgams which are lexically, syntactically, semantically and/or statistically idiosyncratic in some way, and occur in a wide range of configurations including verbal idioms (e.g. "kick the bucket"), verb particle constructions (e.g. "throw up") and coordinate structures (e.g. "dull and boring"). In recent years, there has been increasing awareness in computational linguistics of the need for specialised methods to detect and capture the syntactic flexibility, semantic generalities and productivity of MWEs. In this talk, I will document some of the difficulties posed by MWEs for real-world NLP applications, and outline a range of methods which have been proposed to tackle these issues. Biosketch: Timothy Baldwin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science And Software Engineering, University of Melbourne. His research---funded by the NSF, NTT, ARC, Google and others---has included deep linguistic processing, multiword expressions, deep lexical acquisition, information extraction and web mining. He has given invited talks at various conferences, summer schools and universities worldwide, and is the author of over 100 journal and conference publications. He is currently on the editorial board of Computational Linguistics, a series editor for CSLI Publications, and a Member of the Deep Linguistic Processing with HPSG Initiative (DELPH-IN).