Parsing decomposable idioms
Fischer I, Keil M (1996)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Conference contribution, Original article
Publication year: 1996
Publisher: ACM
Pages Range: 388-393 (vol. 1)
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Event location: Copenhagen, Denmark
URI: http://www2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/publication/download/Coling96.ps.gz
Abstract
Verbal idioms can be divided into two main groups: non-compositional idioms as kick the bucket and compositional/decomposable idioms as spill the beans. In the following we will point to the fact that there are German decomposable idioms which can be decomposed into components, having identifiable meanings contributing to the meaning of the whole. These idiom components are taken to have referents. Taking these facts into account we propose an adequate way to represent the idiomatic meaning by Kamp's Discourse Representation Theory (DRT). Furthermore, we show how to parse idiomatic sentences and how to process the proposed semantic representation. While parsing idioms, the necessary idiomatic knowledge of the idioms' syntax and semantics is extracted from a special idiomatic knowledge base called PHRASEO-LEX.
How to cite
APA:
Fischer, I., & Keil, M. (1996). Parsing decomposable idioms. In Tsujii, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (pp. 388-393 (vol. 1)). Copenhagen, Denmark, DK: ACM.
MLA:
Fischer, Ingrid, and Martina Keil. "Parsing decomposable idioms." Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 1996), Copenhagen, Denmark Ed. Tsujii, J., ACM, 1996. 388-393 (vol. 1).
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