Over the past years, distributed semantic representations have proved to be effective and
flexible keepers of prior knowledge to be integrated into downstream applications. This …

The automatic recognition of idioms poses a challenging problem for NLP applications.
Whereas native speakers can intuitively handle multiword expressions whose compositional …

Non-literal language phenomena such as idioms or metaphors are commonly studied in
isolation from each other in NLP. However, often similar definitions and features are being …

This paper presents first steps towards metaphor detection in German poetry, in particular in
expressionist poems. We create a dataset with adjective-noun pairs extracted from …

This paper presents a collection to assess meaning components in German complex verbs,
which frequently undergo meaning shifts. We use a novel strategy to obtain source and …

In order to differentiate between figurative and literal usage of verb-noun combinations for
the shared task on the disambiguation of German Verbal Idioms issued for KONVENS 2021 …

In this paper, we tackle four different tasks of non-literal language classification: token and
construction level metaphor detection, classification of idiomatic use of infinitive-verb …

Anfangen (to start) is a German particle verb. Consisting of two parts, a base verb (“fangen”)
and particle (“an”), with potentially many or no intervening words in a sentence, particle …

University of Groningen A Bigger Fish to Fry Haagsma, Hessel Page 1 University of
Groningen A Bigger Fish to Fry Haagsma, Hessel DOI: 10.33612/diss.131057087 …

The processing and representation of multiword expressions (MWEs), ranging from noun
compounds (such as nickname in English and Ohrwurm in German) to complex verbs (such …