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| Title | A Survey of Idiomatic Preposition-Noun-Verb Triples on Token Level |
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| Authors | Fabienne Fritzinger, Marion Weller and Ulrich Heid |
| Abstract | Most of the research on the extraction of idiomatic multiword expressions(MWEs) focused on the acquisition of MWE types. In the present work weinvestigate whether a text instance of a potentially idiomatic MWE is actuallyused idiomatically in a given context or not. Inspired by the dataset providedby (Cook et al., 2008), we manually analysed 9,700 instances of potentiallyidiomatic prepositionnoun- verb triples (a frequent pattern among German MWEs)to identify, on token level, idiomatic vs. literal uses. In our dataset, allsentences are provided along with their morpho-syntactic properties. Wedescribe our data extraction and annotation steps, and we discuss quantitativeresults from both EUROPARL and a German newspaper corpus. We discuss therelationship between idiomaticity and morpho-syntactic fixedness, and weaddress issues of ambiguity between literal and idiomatic use of MWEs. Our datashow that EUROPARL is particularly well suited for MWE extraction, as most MWEsin this corpus are indeed used only idiomatically. |
| Language | Tools, systems, applications |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Typological databases, Tools, systems, applications |
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A Survey of Idiomatic Preposition-Noun-Verb Triples on Token Level |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{FRITZINGER10.728, author = {Fabienne Fritzinger, Marion Weller and Ulrich Heid}, title = {A Survey of Idiomatic Preposition-Noun-Verb Triples on Token Level}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |