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<Paper uid="W06-1203">
  <Title>Automatic Identification of Non-Compositional Multi-Word Expressions using Latent Semantic Analysis</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Making use of latent semantic analysis, we explore the hypothesis that local linguistic context can serve to identify multi-word expressions that have non-compositional meanings. We propose that vector-similarity between distribution vectors associated with an MWE as a whole and those associated with its constitutent parts can serve as a good measure of the degree to which the MWE is compositional. We present experiments that show that low (cosine) similarity does, in fact, correlate with non-compositionality.</Paragraph>
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