As a special language coding way and phenomenon, metaphor is an important form when humans use in communication. However, metaphorical mappings are not arbitrary. They based on our physical experience of the world around us. Idioms crystallization human culture play role The idiomatic meaning simply sum lexical meanings, but often extended from literal meaning. paper relevance theory proposed b...

The purpose of this study is to analyse how three idioms, in English, French and Swedish, despite different lexical compositions are capable of conveying the same meaning. The idioms in question are a thorn in the side, une épine au pied/dans le pied and en nagel i ögat. This study is concerned with how different metaphorical images are used to express the same meaning. Furthermore, it examines...

The article deals with the most common English legal idioms, gives their lexical meaning and peculiarities of usage. author also shows history origin some Idioms, that constitute a significant part professional vocabulary, demonstrating rich, original unique nature language, so one aims is to prove knowledge idioms contributes significantly vocabulary law students, thereby facilitating formatio...

The idioms are phrases which meaning is not composed from the meanings of each word in the phrase. This is one of the natural examples of violating the principle of compositionality that means that idioms are in area of natural language processing problem of meaning mining. To count the frequency of phrases such idioms in corpora has one big aim: To get to know which phrases we use often and wh...

In this paper, we describe the LIDIOMS data set, a multilingual RDF representation of idioms currently containing five languages: English, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian. The data set is intended to support natural language processing applications by providing links between idioms across languages. The underlying data was crawled and integrated from various sources. To ensure the qual...

I wiIrpresent a system under development, called LP-DETECT. The system detects and analyses Swedish lexicalised phrases (LPs) in order to enhance subsequent parsing. LPs are one of a number of stumbling blocks related to word sequences that must be dealt with when parsing unrestricted text. LPs include semantic idioms, syntactic idioms and morphological idioms and so called valency breaking LPs...

While the selection of idioms for beginning level CFL learning and instruction is mostly determined byindividual preferences and pedagogical considerations, we propose that idiom selection targeting intermediateand advanced level CFL learners is better guided by a data-driven approach. Based on 20-million charactercorpus of Chinese news texts, we generated a reference frequency list...

Idioms pose a great challenge to natural language understanding. A system that can automatically paraphrase idioms in context has applications in many NLP tasks. This paper proposes a phrasal substitution method to replace idioms with their figurative meanings in literal English. Our approach identifies relevant replacement phrases from an idiom’s dictionary definition and performs appropriate ...

In this paper I introduce (1) a technically simple and highly theory-independent way for lexically representing flexible idiomatic expressions, and (2) a procedure to incorporate these lexical representations in a wide variety of NLP systems. The method is based on Structural EQuivalence Classes for Idioms and therefore called the SEQCI method. I illustrate the approach using the Rosetta MT sys...

During maintenance, developers spend a lot of time transforming existing code: refactoring, optimizing, and adding checks to make it more robust. Much of this work is the drudgery of identifying and replacing specific patterns, yet it resists automation, because of meaningful patterns are hard to automatically find. We present a technique for mining loop idioms, surprisingly probable semantic p...