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title = "Collocation or Free Combination? {---} Applying Machine Translation Techniques to identify collocations in {J}apanese",
author = "Pereira, Lis and
Strafella, Elga and
Matsumoto, Yuji",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Loftsson, Hrafn and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'14)",
month = may,
year = "2014",
address = "Reykjavik, Iceland",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/519_Paper.pdf",
pages = "736--739",
abstract = "This work presents an initial investigation on how to distinguish collocations from free combinations. The assumption is that, while free combinations can be literally translated, the overall meaning of collocations is different from the sum of the translation of its parts. Based on that, we verify whether a machine translation system can help us perform such distinction. Results show that it improves the precision compared with standard methods of collocation identification through statistical association measures.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Collocation or Free Combination? — Applying Machine Translation Techniques to identify collocations in Japanese
%A Pereira, Lis
%A Strafella, Elga
%A Matsumoto, Yuji
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Loftsson, Hrafn
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%S Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14)
%D 2014
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Reykjavik, Iceland
%F pereira-etal-2014-collocation
%X This work presents an initial investigation on how to distinguish collocations from free combinations. The assumption is that, while free combinations can be literally translated, the overall meaning of collocations is different from the sum of the translation of its parts. Based on that, we verify whether a machine translation system can help us perform such distinction. Results show that it improves the precision compared with standard methods of collocation identification through statistical association measures.
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%P 736-739
Markdown (Informal)
[Collocation or Free Combination? — Applying Machine Translation Techniques to identify collocations in Japanese](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/519_Paper.pdf) (Pereira et al., LREC 2014)
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