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This paper describes the integration of verbal idioms into an Natural Language Processing (NLP) system, adopting a construction approach, which is based on the prior parsing stage, so that these Multi-Word Expressions (MWE) can be taken into account in subsequent tasks, such as semantic role labeling or whole-part relation extraction. The paper focuses on body-part nouns, which are often part of many verbal idioms, and uses a manually annotated corpus to evaluate its parsing strategy. Results showed a precision of 0.92, 0.83 recall, 0.87 f-measure and an accuracy 0.99.
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Baptista, J., Mamede, N., Markov, I. (2014). Integrating Verbal Idioms into an NLP System. In: Baptista, J., Mamede, N., Candeias, S., Paraboni, I., Pardo, T.A.S., Volpe Nunes, M.d.G. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8775. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09761-9_28
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