A proposed standard for the lexical representation of idioms
Jan Odijk · Proceedings of the 11th EURALEX International Congress · 2004
this paper I first explain briefly the properties ofone type ofMuIti-Word Expression (MWE), viz., flexible idioms, and how they are dealt with in the Rosetta machine translation system. Taking this as a starting point and generalizing beyond it, I argue that a standardized lexical representation for flexible idioms is not so straightforward. Nevertheless, I make a very concrete proposal for an actual standard for flexible idioms that is highly theory-neutral, and I show how it allows one to achieve a significant reduction of effort in reusing lexical entries for idioms.