Verbal idioms constitute a challenge for machine translation systems: their meaning is not compositional, preventing a wordfor-word translation, and they can be discontinuous, preventing a match during tokenization. This paper presents the treatment of verbal idioms in our machine translation system, which addresses both challenges by deferring idiom matching until after the parse, and by allow...

Hashimoto, Chikara and Kawahara, Daisuke. 2008. Drawing a Line between Literal and Idiomatic Meanings Based on Supervised WSD. Linguistic Research 25(2), 105-123. Some phrases can be interpreted either idiomatically (figuratively) or literally in context, and the precise identification of idioms is indispensable for full-fledged natural language processing (NLP). To this end, we have constructe...

Some phrases can be interpreted either idiomatically (figuratively) or literally in context, and the precise identification of idioms is indispensable for full-fledged natural language processing (NLP). To this end, we have constructed an idiom corpus for Japanese. This paper reports on the corpus and the results of an idiom identification experiment using the corpus. The corpus targets 146 amb...

1 Running head: Idiom understanding and reading difficulties To get hold of the wrong end of the stick: reasons for poor idiom understanding in children with reading comprehension difficulties.

We describe a tool for pattern (idiom) recognition in DSP (digital signal processing) source programs. We focus on patterns for loops and the statements in their bodies as these often are the performance-critical constructs in DSP applications for which replacement by highly optimized, target-specific parallel algorithms will be most profitable. For better structuring and efficiency of pattern ...

This paper presents the details of a pilot study in which we tagged portions of the American National Corpus (ANC) for idioms composed of verb-noun constructions, prepositional phrases, and subordinate clauses. The three data sets we analyzed included 1,500-sentence samples from the spoken, the non-fiction, and the fiction portions of the ANC. This paper provides the details of the tagset we de...

this study aimed to investigate how iranian efl learners performed in producing sentences containing idioms and whether they had any problems in producing such sentences. this query, subsequently, raised the question of whether idioms influenced the participants’ grammaticality judgment on idiom-containing sentences. for this purpose, firstly, the writings of 24 learners were investigated for a...

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has been widely used in recent years with significant improvements for many language pairs. Although state-of-the-art NMT systems are generating progressively better translations, idiom translation remains one of the open challenges in this field. Idioms, a category of multiword expressions, are an interesting language phenomenon where the overall meaning of the...

Abstract Idioms are a kind of idiomatic expression in Chinese, most which consist four Chinese characters. Due to the properties non-compositionality and metaphorical meaning, idioms hard be understood by children non-native speakers. This study proposes novel task, denoted as Idiom Paraphrasing (CIP). CIP aims rephrase idiom-containing sentences non-idiomatic ones under premise preserving orig...