Human Associations Help to Detect Conventionalized Multiword Expressions
Computation and Language
2017-09-13 v1
Abstract
In this paper we show that if we want to obtain human evidence about conventionalization of some phrases, we should ask native speakers about associations they have to a given phrase and its component words. We have shown that if component words of a phrase have each other as frequent associations, then this phrase can be considered as conventionalized. Another type of conventionalized phrases can be revealed using two factors: low entropy of phrase associations and low intersection of component word and phrase associations. The association experiments were performed for the Russian language.
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@article{arxiv.1709.03925,
title = {Human Associations Help to Detect Conventionalized Multiword Expressions},
author = {Natalia Loukachevitch and Anastasia Gerasimova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.03925},
year = {2017}
}