Unsupervised recognition of literal and non-literal use of idiomatic expressions

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 754-762

  Sporleder, Caroline ^a   Li, Liniin ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL FORM; NON-LITERAL; STRONG LINK; UNSUPERVISED METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80053433314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1609067.1609151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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