@InProceedings{peng-feldman:2016:COLING,
  author    = {Peng, JIng  and  Feldman, Anna},
  title     = {Experiments in Idiom Recognition},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {2752--2761},
  abstract  = {Some expressions can be ambiguous between idiomatic and literal interpretations
	depending on the context they occur in, e.g., `sales hit the roof' vs. `hit the
	roof of the car'. We present a novel method of classifying whether a given
	instance is literal or idiomatic, focusing on verb-noun constructions. We
	report state-of-the-art results on this task using an approach based on the
	hypothesis that the distributions of the contexts of the idiomatic phrases will
	be different from the contexts of the literal usages. We measure contexts by
	using projections of the words into vector space. For comparison, we implement
	Fazly et al. (2009)’s, Sporleder and Li (2009)’s, and Li and Sporleder
	(2010b)’s methods and apply them to our data. We provide experimental results
	validating the proposed techniques.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/C16-1259}
}