Paper Info
Title
Linguistic cues for distinguishing literal and non-literal usages
Abstract
We investigate the effectiveness of different linguistic cues for distinguishing literal and non-literal usages of potentially idiomatic expressions. We focus specifically on features that generalize across different target expressions. While idioms on the whole are frequent, instances of each particular expression can be relatively infrequent and it will often not be feasible to extract and annotate a sufficient number of examples for each expression one might want to disambiguate. We experimented with a number of different features and found that features encoding lexical cohesion as well as some syntactic features can generalize well across idioms.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
COLING (Posters)
lexical cohesion,non-literal usage,different linguistic cue,particular expression,different feature,linguistic cue,syntactic feature,sufficient number,different target expression,idiomatic expression
Field
DocType
Volume
Cohesion (chemistry),Expression (mathematics),Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Syntax,Linguistics,Encoding (memory)
Conference
C10-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
1.12
14
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Linlin Li11177.66
Caroline Sporleder245331.84