Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a class of linguistic forms spanning conventional word
boundaries that are both idiosyncratic and pervasive across different languages. The …

Vector‐based models of word meaning have become increasingly popular in cognitive
science. The appeal of these models lies in their ability to represent meaning simply by …

WordNet:: Similarity is a freely available software package that makes it possible to measure
the semantic similarity or relatedness between a pair of concepts (or word senses). It …

This paper proposes a framework for representing the meaning of phrases and sentences in
vector space. Central to our approach is vector composition which we operationalize in …

• San Francisco, ad hoc, by and large, Where Eagles Dare, kick the bucket, part of speech, in
step, the Oakland Raiders, trip the light fantastic, telephone box, call (someone) up, take a …

We introduce two ways to detect entailment using distributional semantic representations of
phrases. Our first experiment shows that the entailment relation between adjective-noun …

Idioms constitute a subclass of multi-word units that exhibit strong collocational preferences
and whose meanings are at least partially non-compositional. Drawing on English and …

Collocation is a common language phenomenon which has attracted the interest of
researchers in many subfields of both theoretical and computational linguistics. Although …

This work investigates the variation in a word's distributionally nearest neighbours with
respect to the similarity measure used. We identify one type of variation as being the relative …

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