Idiomatic Expressions

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COLING
2010

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Linguistic Cues for Distinguishing Literal and Non-Literal Usages

13 years 10 months ago

We investigate the effectiveness of different linguistic cues for distinguishing literal and non-literal usages of potentially idiomatic expressions. We focus specifically on feat...

Linlin Li, Caroline Sporleder

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EMNLP
2009

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Classifier Combination for Contextual Idiom Detection Without Labelled Data

14 years 22 days ago

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We propose a novel unsupervised approach for distinguishing literal and non-literal use of idiomatic expressions. Our model combines an unsupervised and a supervised classifier. T...

Linlin Li, Caroline Sporleder

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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology

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Automatically Constructing a Lexicon of Verb Phrase Idiomatic Combinations

14 years 4 months ago

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We investigate the lexical and syntactic flexibility of a class of idiomatic expressions. We develop measures that draw on such linguistic properties, and demonstrate that these s...

Afsaneh Fazly, Suzanne Stevenson

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EACL
2009
ACL Anthology

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Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Non-Literal Use of Idiomatic Expressions

15 years 3 months ago

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Caroline Sporleder, Linlin Li

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