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  <Title>I i i I I i I I I I I I I I I l I I I Towards a Representation of Idioms in WordNet</Title>
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8 Summary and conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We considered the nature of idiomatic expressions in the light of their potential integration into WordNet. Some idioms pose formal, syntactic problems and express complex concepts that are not expressible by mean.q of the standard lexical and syntactic categories, including those represented in WordNet. Other idioms are formally uaremarkable but express concepts 4There are some de-adjectival verbs that express specillc concepts with meanings &amp;quot;be or become Adjective,&amp;quot; such as pa/e or redden. Idioms that express the same concepts as such verbs could be added as synonyms, but these cases are very few.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1">  that cannot easily be connected to any of the concepts in the semantic network. Perhaps one function of idioms (and one reason for their frequency and their persistence over time) is to provide for the pre-coded lexicalized expression of complex concepts and ideas that do not exist as units in the language and would have to be composed by speakers. Their frequent occurrence in the language seems to show that many idioms refer to salient concepts and must be considered an important part of the lexicon.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We have made some proposals for their integration into WordNet that should benefit in particular the kinds of NLP applications that rely on this lexical resource.</Paragraph>
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