In this paper, we describe a grammatical formalism, called DepPattern, to write dependency grammars using patterns of Part of Speech (PoS) tags augmented with lexical and morphological information. The formalism inherits ideas from Sinclair’s work and Pattern Grammar. To properly analyze semi-fixed idiomatic expressions, DepPattern distinguishes between open-choice and idiomatic rules. A gramma...

This research tries to investigate and identify firstly some existing obstacles in the process of translating inter-lingual idiomatic pairs, and then to suggest some weighty theoretical strategies to overcome such difficulties. Following Mona Baker's (1992) classification of difficulties and strategies and the related subcategories mentioned, the present study makes an effort to analyze such cl...

The article examines the idiomatic features of anatomical terminology in modern English. authors emphasize that understanding and correct use expressions is an indicator in-depth knowledge a foreign language important element preparing for international English exams, particular, with aim recognizing implicit meanings (C1 – Advanced, C2 Proficiency levels). It has been noted mastering constitut...

Idioms and other figuratively used expressions pose considerable problems to natural language processing applications because they are very frequent and often behave idiosyncratically. Consequently, there has been much research on the automatic detection and extraction of idiomatic expressions. Most studies focus on type-based idiom detection, i.e., distinguishing whether a given expression can...

Distributional Semantic Models (DSM) that represent words as vectors of weights over a high dimensional feature space have proved very effective in representing semantic or syntactic word similarity. For certain tasks however it is important to represent contrasting aspects such as polarity, different senses or idiomatic use of words. We present two methods for creating embeddings that take int...

It is obliged to provide an effective reading support system for CSL (Chinese as Second Language) learners, for recognition and comprehension of CIE (Chinese Idiomatic Expression) in Chinese text are very difficult for them. Though most current research are focusing on Chinese reading support, there is still no perfect system that can provide a convenient support aiming at CIE. In this paper, w...