.@cigardubey @neil21 Quite a but out there. I have links saved somewhere.
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@vgr Interestingly Ray Jackendoff posited in 90s/00s that idiom-like rote pattern matching/adaptation was the general language mechanism -
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@vgr Former linguist who dabbled in compling here. Pretty sure nope. Many require explanation even first time for natives. -
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@vgr been some hard work from MSFT NLP groups. Smets et al: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/2546832_Translation_of_Verbal_Idioms …. book reviewed here also worthy http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-2758.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@vgr Simple brute plug-in look up tables.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@vgr my hunch: latest deep-NN-machine-translation will soon do. already learns lang-independent sentence vector, then emits in alt langs.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@vgr I recall from conversations with NLP people that detecting/classifying idiomatic or metaphoric usage is itself a hard research problem.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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