In plain words: A tool spots phrases like "kick the bucket" whose meaning can't be guessed from the words alone, by combining three clues: how the parts fit, how often they appear together, and whether they can be swapped. It beat earlier tools that use one clue.
Abstract · A Multivariate Model for Representing Semantic Non-compositionality
Semantically non-compositional phrases constitute an intriguing research topic in Natural Language Processing. Semantic non-compositionality --the situation when the meaning of a phrase cannot be derived from the meaning of its components, is the main characteristic of such phrases, however, they bear other characteristics such as high statistical association and non-substitutability. In this work, we present a model for identifying non-compositional phrases that takes into account all of these characteristics. We show that the presented model remarkably outperforms the existing models of identifying non-compositional phrases that mostly focus only on one of these characteristics.
Meghdad Farahmand
arXiv:1908.05490 · cs.CL, cs.AI · submitted Aug 15, 2019
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