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Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology
Edited by Ruslan Mitkov, Johanna Monti, Gloria Corpas Pastor and Violeta Seretan
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 341] 2018
► pp. 201–222

The quest for croatian idioms as multiword units

Idiomatic expressions are types of MWUs in which the meaning of the unit does not equal the cummulative meaning of its parts. They are culturally dependent, so the translation cannot be inferred from the expression itself. Croatian language has a very rich idiomatic structure. A few such expressions can be understood in direct translation but most are different from the literal translations. As the idioms are rooted in the tradition of the language and society from which they hail, they need special treatment in computational linguistics. Using NooJ as an NLP tool, we describe different types of Croatian idioms that will help us recognize them in texts. Idioms recognition should be given special treatment, being the major task in translation.
Keywords: Multiword units, idiomatic expressions, translation, Croatian, NooJ
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Theoretical background
    • 2.1Idioms as a type of MWU in Croatian language
    • 2.2Importance of idiom detection in translation
    • 2.3Previous work
  • 3.Corpus of croatian idioms
  • 4.NooJ – NLP tool of our choice
  • 5.Dictionaries and syntactic grammars
  • 6.Classification of idioms
    • 6.1Idioms of Type 1
    • 6.2Idioms of Type 2
    • 6.3Idioms of Type 3
    • 6.4Idioms of Type 4
    • 6.5Idioms of Type 5
  • 7.Results
  • 8.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 20 July 2018
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