Towards the automatic learning of idiomatic prepositional phrases

  • Authors:
  • Sofía N. Galicia-Haro;Alexander Gelbukh

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Sciences UNAM Universitary City, Mexico City, Mexico;Center for Computing Research, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico

  • Venue:
  • MICAI'05 Proceedings of the 4th Mexican international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The objective of this work is to automatically determine, in an unsupervised manner, Spanish prepositional phrases of the type preposition – nominal phrase – preposition (P(NP(P) that behave in a sentence as a lexical unit and their semantic and syntactic properties cannot be deduced from the corresponding properties of each simple form, e.g., por medio de (by means of), a fin de (in order to), con respecto a (with respect to). We show that idiomatic P(NP(P combinations have some statistical properties distinct from those of usual idiomatic collocations. We also explore a way to differentiate P(NP(P combinations that could perform either as a regular prepositional phrase or as idiomatic prepositional phrase.