@InProceedings{flor-beigmanklebanov:2018:W18-09,
  author    = {Flor, Michael  and  Beigman Klebanov, Beata},
  title     = {Catching Idiomatic Expressions in EFL Essays},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Figurative Language Processing},
  month     = {June},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {New Orleans, Louisiana},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {34--44},
  abstract  = {This paper presents an exploratory study on large-scale detection of idiomatic expressions in essays written by non-native speakers of English. We describe a computational search procedure for automatic detection of idiom-candidate phrases in essay texts. The study used a corpus of essays written during a standardized examination of English language proficiency. Automatically-flagged candidate expressions were manually annotated for idiomaticity. The study found that idioms are widely used in EFL essays. The study also showed that a search algorithm that accommodates the syntactic and lexical exibility of idioms can increase the recall of idiom instances by 30%, but it also increases the amount of false positives.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-0905}
}