Specifically , we examine the strength of association between the verb and the noun constituent of a combination ( the target expression or its lexical variants ) as an indirect cue to its idiomaticity , an approach inspired by Lin ( 1999 ) .
automatic identification of noncompositional phrases
Dekang Lin
We thus interpret this property statistically in the following way : We expect a lexically fixed verb + noun combination to appear much more frequently than its variants in general . Specifically , we examine the strength of association between the verb and the noun constituent of a combination ( the target expression or its lexical variants ) as an indirect cue to its idiomaticity , an approach inspired by Lin ( 1999 ) . We use the automatically built thesaurus of Lin ( 1998 ) to find words similar to each constituent , in order to automatically generate variants .2 Variants are generated by replacing either
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