arxivcs.CLcs.AIcs.ET2026-07-10
Conceptual Networks for Cross-Linguistic Idiomatic Expressions: A Feature-Based Graph Approach
Kiran Pala, Punam Silu, Luxin Yu
We present an interpretable network-based framework for representing idiomatic and figurative meaning across eight typologically diverse languages, totaling 160 conventional expressions, the large majority of which are idiomatic. Each expression is annotated with binary conceptua…