Leaving No Stone Unturned: Flexible Retrieval of Idiomatic Expressions from a Large Text Corpus

Idioms are multi-word expressions whose meaning cannot always be deduced from the literal meaning of constituent words. A key feature of idioms that is central to this paper is their peculiar mixture of fixedness and variability, which poses challenges for their retrieval from large corpora using tr...

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Main Authors: Callum Hughes, Maxim Filimonov, Alison Wray, Irena Spasić
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2504-4990/3/1/13