Identifying idiomatic expressions using automatic word-alignment

EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-Word-Expressions in a Multilingual Context, MWE 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 33-40

  Moirón, Begoña Villada ^a   Tiedemann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

COMPONENT WORDS; IDIOMATICS; LITERALS; PARALLEL CORPORA; SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION; WORD ALIGNMENT;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84858303384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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