A General Framework for Detecting Metaphorical Collocations

Marija Brkić Bakarić, Lucia Načinović Prskalo, Maja Popović


Abstract
This paper aims at identifying a specific set of collocations known under the term metaphorical collocations. In this type of collocations, a semantic shift has taken place in one of the components. Since the appropriate gold standard needs to be compiled prior to any serious endeavour to extract metaphorical collocations automatically, this paper first presents the steps taken to compile it, and then establishes appropriate evaluation framework. The process of compiling the gold standard is illustrated on one of the most frequent Croatian nouns, which resulted in the preliminary relation significance set. With the aim to investigate the possibility of facilitating the process, frequency, logDice, relation, and pretrained word embeddings are used as features in the classification task conducted on the logDice-based word sketch relation lists. Preliminary results are presented.
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2022.mwe-1.3
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Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Multiword Expressions @LREC2022
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June
Year:
2022
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Marseille, France
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Archna Bhatia, Paul Cook, Shiva Taslimipoor, Marcos Garcia, Carlos Ramisch
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MWE
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SIGLEX
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European Language Resources Association
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3–8
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.mwe-1.3
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Marija Brkić Bakarić, Lucia Načinović Prskalo, and Maja Popović. 2022. A General Framework for Detecting Metaphorical Collocations. In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Multiword Expressions @LREC2022, pages 3–8, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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A General Framework for Detecting Metaphorical Collocations (Brkić Bakarić et al., MWE 2022)
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