Automatically determining allowable combinations of a class of flexible multiword expressions

Authors:
Afsaneh Fazly;Ryan North;Suzanne Stevenson
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Venue:
CICLing'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We develop statistical measures for assessing the acceptability of a frequent class of multiword expressions. We also use the measures to estimate the degree of productivity of the expressions over semantically related nouns. We show that a linguistically-inspired measure outperforms a standard measure of collocation in its match with human judgments. The measure uses simple extraction techniques over non-marked-up web data.