@inproceedings{Cook2007,
  author={Paul Cook and Afsaneh Fazly and Suzanne Stevenson},
  title={Pulling their weight: {E}xploiting syntactic forms for the
  automatic identification of idiomatic expressions in context},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on A Broader Perspective on
  Multiword Expressions},
  year={2007},
  address={Prague, Czech Republic},
  abstract={Much work on idioms has focused on type identification, i.e.,
           determining whether a sequence of words can form an idiomatic
           expression.  Since an idiom type often has a literal interpretation as
           well, token classification of potential idioms in context is critical
           for NLP.  We explore the use of informative prior knowledge about the
           overall syntactic behaviour of a potentially-idiomatic expression
           (type-based knowledge) to determine whether an instance of the
           expression is used idiomatically or literally (token-based knowledge).
           We develop unsupervised methods for the task, and show that their
           performance is comparable to that of state-of-the-art supervised techniques.},
download={http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~pcook/CFS2007.pdf},
}