%0 Conference Proceedings %T Idiom Type Identification with Smoothed Lexical Features and a Maximum Margin Classifier %A Salton, Giancarlo %A Ross, Robert %A Kelleher, John %Y Mitkov, Ruslan %Y Angelova, Galia %S Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2017 %D 2017 %8 September %I INCOMA Ltd. %C Varna, Bulgaria %F salton-etal-2017-idiom %X In our work we address limitations in the state-of-the-art in idiom type identification. We investigate different approaches for a lexical fixedness metric, a component of the state-of the-art model. We also show that our Machine Learning based approach to the idiom type identification task achieves an F1-score of 0.85, an improvement of 11 points over the state-of the-art. %R 10.26615/978-954-452-049-6_083 %U https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-049-6_083 %P 642-651