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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Automatic Detection of Idiomatic Clauses
Authors : Anna Feldman, Jing Peng
Published in: Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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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.