Publication details
Computing Idioms Frequency in Text Corpora
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing 2008 |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/raslan/2008/papers/12.pdf |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | frequency of idioms; headwords; text corpora; czech language |
| Description | The idioms are phrases which meaning is not composed from the meanings of each word in the phrase. This is one of the natural examples of violating the principle of compositionality that means that idioms are in area of natural language processing problem of meaning mining. To count the frequency of phrases such idioms in corpora has one big aim: To get to know which phrases we use often and which less. We do it to be able to start with getting the meaning of the whole phrases not just each word. This improves the understanding natural language. The idioms are phrases which meaning is not composed from the meanings of each word in the phrase. This is one of the natural examples of violating the principle of compositionality that means that idioms are in area of natural language processing problem of meaning mining. To count the frequency of phrases such idioms in corpora has one big aim: To get to know which phrases we use often and which less. We do it to be able to start with getting the meaning of the whole phrases not just each word. This improves the understanding natural language. |
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