A Multilingual Database of Idioms

4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

Aline Villavicencio∗, Timothy Baldwin†, Benjamin Waldron∗ ; †CSLI ; Ventura Hall ; Stanford University Stanford ; CA 94305-4115 ; USA

PID  :  124415

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

This paper presents a possible architecture for a multilingual database of idioms. We discuss the challenges that idioms present to the creation of such a database and propose a possible encoding that maximises the amount of information that can be stored for different languages. Such a resource provides important information for linguistic, computational linguistic and psycholinguistic use, and allows for the comparison of different phenomena in different languages. This can provide the basis for a better understanding of regularities in