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Cowie, Helen

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“…But, despite the fact that their analysis is being intensely carried out in several linguistic areas, they still pose problems regarding their accurate identification. It is not easy to distinguish different types of expressions, which has been proven by the large quantity of typologies in the literature ( [2], [5], [9], [10], [15], [18], [22]). …”

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“…Regarding the semantic analysis, and following [2], [5], [10], [15] and [22], we firstly considered a scale of idiomaticity, composed by three major classes: (i) compositional meaning; (ii) partially idiomatic meaning (at least one of the elements keeps its literal meaning); (iii) total idiomatic meaning. Within each of these three semantic categories, the MWEs are also classified regarding their type: collocations, compounds, formulae, light verbs, idioms, similes, sayings and clichés.…”

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“…Each expression can be classified as: (i) fixed (no variation); (ii) semi-fixed (nominal/verbal inflection) 5 ; (iii) with variation. The variation field is, in turn, subdivided into lexical (permutation, replacement of elements, reduction, etc.…”

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A Lexical Database for the Analysis of Portuguese MWEs

Antunes¹

2017

Proceedings of the Conference EUROPHRAS 2017 - Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology: Recent Advances and Interdisciplinar

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Abstract. We present an Access database that will help to analyze and classify Portuguese MWEs according to their linguistic properties. We used a subset of an existing lexicon of Portuguese MWEs that was extracted from a corpus using Mutual Information as a statistical measure, followed by manual validation. The lexicon is organized in a three-level structure: the main lemmas, the group lemmas and the variants of those groups. This subset was imported to the database together with linguistic information about the MWEs and their variants (morphosyntactic structure, syntactic category, frequency, MI, grammatical function, discursive function, etc.). A semantic and syntactic fine-grained typology was established, and, by selecting a particular MWE, we can classify it with respect to its degree of semantic decomposability and syntactic transformation. The database is highly customizable and enables the addition/deletion of semantic or syntactic categories considered important throughout the analysis. In the end, all the information of the database will be exported to a XML format, resulting in a lexicon enriched with linguistic information.

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