Elements of information theory
Elements of information theory
Foundations of statistical natural language processing
Foundations of statistical natural language processing
Multiword Expressions: A Pain in the Neck for NLP
CICLing '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Head-driven statistical models for natural language parsing
Head-driven statistical models for natural language parsing
Retrieving collocations from text: Xtract
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: I
Automatic retrieval and clustering of similar words
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Similarity-based estimation of word cooccurrence probabilities
ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Automatic identification of non-compositional phrases
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
Building a lexical knowledge-base of near-synonym differences
Building a lexical knowledge-base of near-synonym differences
Detecting novel compounds: the role of distributional evidence
EACL '03 Proceedings of the tenth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Methods for the qualitative evaluation of lexical association measures
ACL '01 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A statistical approach to the semantics of verb-particles
MWE '03 Proceedings of the ACL 2003 workshop on Multiword expressions: analysis, acquisition and treatment - Volume 18
Detecting a continuum of compositionality in phrasal verbs
MWE '03 Proceedings of the ACL 2003 workshop on Multiword expressions: analysis, acquisition and treatment - Volume 18
An empirical model of multiword expression decomposability
MWE '03 Proceedings of the ACL 2003 workshop on Multiword expressions: analysis, acquisition and treatment - Volume 18
Paradigmatic modifiability statistics for the extraction of complex multi-word terms
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Measuring the relative compositionality of verb-noun (V-N) collocations by integrating features
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Japanese idiom recognition: drawing a line between literal and idiomatic meanings
COLING-ACL '06 Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions
MWE '04 Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing
Automatic identification of non-compositional multi-word expressions using latent semantic analysis
MWE '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties
A measure of syntactic flexibility for automatically identifying multiword expressions in corpora
MWE '07 Proceedings of the Workshop on a Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions
Distinguishing subtypes of multiword expressions using linguistically-motivated statistical measures
MWE '07 Proceedings of the Workshop on a Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions
Semantics-based multiword expression extraction
MWE '07 Proceedings of the Workshop on a Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions
MWE '07 Proceedings of the Workshop on a Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions
Automatic extraction of idioms using graph analysis and asymmetric lexicosyntactic patterns
DeepLA '05 Proceedings of the ACL-SIGLEX Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition
Disambiguating Japanese compound verbs
Computer Speech and Language
Prepositions in applications: A survey and introduction to the special issue
Computational Linguistics
Unsupervised recognition of literal and non-literal use of idiomatic expressions
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Classifier combination for contextual idiom detection without labelled data
EMNLP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 1 - Volume 1
TextGraphs-4 Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
Using Gaussian Mixture models to detect figurative language in context
HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Predicting the semantic compositionality of prefix verbs
EMNLP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Identifying idiomatic expressions using phrase alignments in bilingual parallel corpus
PRICAI'10 Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Rim international conference on Trends in artificial intelligence
Linguistic cues for distinguishing literal and non-literal usages
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
Automatic extraction of NV expressions in Basque: basic issues on cooccurrence techniques
MWE '11 Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World
Learning English light verb constructions: contextual or statistical
MWE '11 Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World
A hybrid approach for multiword expression identification
PROPOR'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language
Unsupervised identification of persian compound verbs
MICAI'11 Proceedings of the 10th Mexican international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence - Volume Part I
Combining resources for MWE-token classification
SemEval '12 Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
An unsupervised ranking model for noun-noun compositionality
SemEval '12 Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics - Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Automatic detection of idiomatic clauses
CICLing'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - Volume Part I
Design and analysis of genetic algorithm based Chinese keyword extracting
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
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Idiomatic expressions are plentiful in everyday language, yet they remain mysterious, as it is not clear exactly how people learn and understand them. They are of special interest to linguists, psycholinguists, and lexicographers, mainly because of their syntactic and semantic idiosyncrasies as well as their unclear lexical status. Despite a great deal of research on the properties of idioms in the linguistics literature, there is not much agreement on which properties are characteristic of these expressions. Because of their peculiarities, idiomatic expressions have mostly been overlooked by researchers in computational linguistics. In this article, we look into the usefulness of some of the identified linguistic properties of idioms for their automatic recognition. Specifically, we develop statistical measures that each model a specific property of idiomatic expressions by looking at their actual usage patterns in text. We use these statistical measures in a type-based classification task where we automatically separate idiomatic expressions (expressions with a possible idiomatic interpretation) from similar-on-the-surface literal phrases (for which no idiomatic interpretation is possible). In addition, we use some of the measures in a token identification task where we distinguish idiomatic and literal usages of potentially idiomatic expressions in context.