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Background Automatic extraction of morbid disease or conditions contained in Death Certificates is a critical process, useful for billing, epidemiological studies and comparison across countries. The fact that these clinical documents are written in regular natural language makes the automatic coding process difficult because, often, spontaneous terms diverge strongly from standard reference terminology such as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Objective

Multiword expressions can have both idiomatic and literal occurrences. For instance pulling strings can be understood either as making use of one’s influence, or literally. Distinguishing these two cases has been addressed in linguistics and psycholinguistics studies, and is also considered one of the major challenges in MWE processing. We suggest that literal occurrences should be considered in both semantic and syntactic terms, which motivates their study in a treebank.

Unitate fraseologiko asko idiomatikoki eta literalki uler daitezke. Esate baterako, ziria sartzeak bi esanahi izan ditzake testuinguruaren arabera: norbaiti iruzur egitea edo nonbait ziri bat sartzea literalki. Lan honetan, corpusetan oinarritutako azterketa eleaniztun baten berri emango dugu, eta erakutsiko dugu, batetik, halako hitz-konbinazioak oso gutxitan erabiltzen direla literalki praktikan, eta bestetik, idiomatiko-literal bereizketa