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A Multilingual Database of Idioms

@inproceedings{Villavicencio2004AMD,
  title={A Multilingual Database of Idioms},
  author={Aline Villavicencio and Timothy Baldwin and Benjamin Waldron},
  booktitle={International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation},
  year={2004}
}
This paper presents a possible architecture for a multilingual database of idioms. We discuss the challenges that idioms present to the creation of such a database and propose a possible encoding that maximises the amount of information that can be stored for different languages. Such a resource provides important information for linguistic, computational linguistic and psycholinguistic use, and allows for the comparison of different phenomena in different languages. This can provide the basis… 
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