Automatically Determining Allowable Combinations of a Class of Flexible Multiword Expressions

摘要

We develop statistical measures for assessing the acceptability of a frequent class of multiword expressions. We also use the measures to estimate the degree of productivity of the expressions over semantically related nouns. We show that a linguistically-inspired measure outperforms a standard measure of collocation in its match with human judgments. The measure uses simple extraction techniques over non-marked-up web data.