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The objective of this work is to automatically determine, in an unsupervised manner, Spanish prepositional phrases of the type preposition – nominal phrase – preposition (P(NP(P) that behave in a sentence as a lexical unit and their semantic and syntactic properties cannot be deduced from the corresponding properties of each simple form, e.g., por medio de (by means of), a fin de (in order to), con respecto a (with respect to). We show that idiomatic P(NP(P combinations have some statistical properties distinct from those of usual idiomatic collocations. We also explore a way to differentiate P(NP(P combinations that could perform either as a regular prepositional phrase or as idiomatic prepositional phrase.
Work partially supported by Mexican Government (CONACyT, SNI, CGPI-IPN, PIFI-IPN).
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Galicia-Haro, S.N., Gelbukh, A. (2005). Towards the Automatic Learning of Idiomatic Prepositional Phrases. In: Gelbukh, A., de Albornoz, Á., Terashima-Marín, H. (eds) MICAI 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. MICAI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3789. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11579427_79
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