Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a class of linguistic forms spanning conventional word
boundaries that are both idiosyncratic and pervasive across different languages. The …

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 …

Idiomatic expressions are an integral part of natural language and constantly being added to
a language. Owing to their non-compositionality and their ability to take on a figurative or …

We propose an unsupervised method for distinguishing literal and non-literal usages of
idiomatic expressions. Our method determines how well a literal interpretation is linked to …

Idioms are phrases which present a figurative meaning that cannot be (completely) derived
by looking at the meaning of their individual components. Identifying and understanding …

Idiomatic expressions formed from a verb and a noun in its direct object position are a
productive cross-lingual class of multiword expressions, which can be used both …

Multiword expressions (MWEs) have been proved useful for many natural language
processing tasks. However, how to use them to improve performance of statistical machine …

Much work on idioms has focused on type identification, ie, determining whether a sequence
of words can form an idiomatic expression. Since an idiom type often has a literal …

Idioms constitute a subclass of multi-word units that exhibit strong collocational preferences
and whose meanings are at least partially non-compositional. Drawing on English and …

In this paper, we investigate a supervised machine learning framework for automatically
learning of English Light Verb Constructions (LVCs). Our system achieves an 86.3 …