Unsupervised type and token identification of idiomatic expressions

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-103

  Fazly, Afsaneh ^a   Cook, Paul ^a   Stevenson, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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SEMANTICS;

ACTUAL USAGE PATTERNS; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; EVERYDAY LANGUAGE; HOW PEOPLE LEARN; LINGUISTIC PROPERTIES; SPECIFIC PROPERTIES; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

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EID: 62449343247     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli.08-010-R1-07-048     Document Type: Article

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