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  <Title>Automatically Constructing a Lexicon of Verb Phrase Idiomatic Combinations</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We investigate the lexical and syntactic flexibility of a class of idiomatic expressions. We develop measures that draw on such linguistic properties, and demonstrate that these statistical, corpus-based measures can be successfully used for distinguishing idiomatic combinations from non-idiomatic ones. We also propose a means for automatically determining which syntactic forms a particular idiom can appear in, and hence should be included in its lexical representation.</Paragraph>
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