Pulling their weight: Exploiting syntactic forms for the automatic identification of idiomatic expressions in context. Cook, P., Fazly, A., & Stevenson, S. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on A Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007. abstract bibtex Much work on idioms has focused on type identification, i.e., determining whether a sequence of words can form an idiomatic expression. Since an idiom type often has a literal interpretation as well, token classification of potential idioms in context is critical for NLP. We explore the use of informative prior knowledge about the overall syntactic behaviour of a potentially-idiomatic expression (type-based knowledge) to determine whether an instance of the expression is used idiomatically or literally (token-based knowledge). We develop unsupervised methods for the task, and show that their performance is comparable to that of state-of-the-art supervised techniques.
@InProceedings{ cook2007,
author = {Paul Cook and Afsaneh Fazly and Suzanne Stevenson},
title = {Pulling their weight: {E}xploiting syntactic forms for the
automatic identification of idiomatic expressions in
context},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on A Broader Perspective
on Multiword Expressions},
year = {2007},
address = {Prague, Czech Republic},
abstract = {Much work on idioms has focused on type identification,
i.e., determining whether a sequence of words can form an
idiomatic expression. Since an idiom type often has a
literal interpretation as well, token classification of
potential idioms in context is critical for NLP. We explore
the use of informative prior knowledge about the overall
syntactic behaviour of a potentially-idiomatic expression
(type-based knowledge) to determine whether an instance of
the expression is used idiomatically or literally
(token-based knowledge). We develop unsupervised methods
for the task, and show that their performance is comparable
to that of state-of-the-art supervised techniques.},
download = {http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~pcook/CFS2007.pdf}
}
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