Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
3-3-2013
Abstract
We describe several experiments whose goal is to automatically identify idiomatic expressions in written text. We explore two approaches for the task: 1) idiom recognition as outlier detection; and 2) supervised classification of sentences. We apply principal component analysis for outlier detection. Detecting idioms as lexical outliers does not exploit class label information. So, in the following experiments, we use linear discriminant analysis to obtain a discriminant subspace and later use the three nearest neighbor classifier to obtain accuracy. We discuss pros and cons of each approach. All the approaches are more general than the previous algorithms for idiom detection - neither do they rely on target idiom types, lexicons, or large manually annotated corpora, nor do they limit the search space by a particular type of linguistic construction.
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-37247-6_35
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Feldman, Anna and Peng, Jing, "Automatic Detection of Idiomatic Clauses" (2013). Department of Linguistics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 17.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/linguistics-facpubs/17
Published Citation
Feldman, A., & Peng, J. (2013, March). Automatic detection of idiomatic clauses. In International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (pp. 435-446). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.