Idiom translation is a challenging problem in machine translation because the meaning of idioms is non-compositional, and a literal translation is likely to be wrong. In this paper, we assess the quality of idiom translation of a modern neural MT system. We introduce a new evaluation method based on an idiom-specific blacklist of literal translations, based on the insight that the occurrence of...

Programmers resort to design patterns, micro-architectures, and other idioms when their design ideas can’t be expressed directly in the programming language. The crosscutting code that appears as a result makes it harder to ensure a correct implementation of the idiom, and complicates software evolution when the idiom’s implementation cannot be modularly substituted or extended like a method or...

In this paper we investigate the role of idioms in automated approaches to sentiment analysis. To estimate the degree to which the inclusion of idioms as features may potentially improve the results of traditional sentiment analysis, we compared our results to two such methods. First, to support idioms as features we collected a set of 580 idioms that are relevant to sentiment analysis, i.e. th...

Computer architects have exploited properties of repeating patterns of computation in many applications ranging from instruction set architecture specification to cluster scheduling. Most existing techniques for detecting such patterns involve either identifying loops with high trip counts, or considering only adjacent instructions. Heretofore the general problem of exhaustively detecting patte...

It has traditionally been assumed that the meaning of some or all phrasal idioms is noncompositional. However, I will argue here that the aspectual meaning of idioms is completely systematic: there are no special aspectual restrictions on idioms, and moreover, the aspectual properties of an idiom are compositional, combining the aspectual properties of its syntactic constituents in the usual wa...

Idioms are considered the embodiment of human wisdom and viewed as essence national languages. Both English Chinese replete with idioms, which reflect well-established, extensive, profound cultures East West. Nowadays, flourishing international communication, translation idioms has become increasingly frequent important. The cultural information conveyed by is so distinct that it can pose chall...

This paper introduces a new view on program source code with a focus on code clone information. An algorithm is presented that transforms source code into an equivalent representation which expresses code redundancies as hierarchical clone classes explicitly. This representation supports program comprehension by pointing out arbitrary programming idioms and the frequencies of their occurrences ...

In this talk, we present a series of C++ programming design idioms for writing efficient C++ programs, briefly review the underlying C++ object model, and turn to design alternatives when the idioms themselves become overwhelmed with, say, large-scale object creation and copy. We look at object-based and object-oriented design, use of the STL container classes and generic algorithms, and the de...