Identifying collocations in a text (e.g., break record) and correctly translating them (battre record vs. *casser record) represent key issues in machine translation, notably because of their prevalence in language and their syntactic flexibility. This article describes a method for discovering translation equivalents for collocations from parallel corpora, aimed at increasing the lexical cover...

Exemple : 1 ère itération : travail administratif 2 ème itération : responsabilité de travail-administratif À chaque itération, les collocations binaires (et ternaires pour les collocations prépositionnelles) sont sélectionnées avec une mesure statistique et l'ajout de paramètres [Roche et al., 2004]. Corpus étudiés :-Corpus de Ressources Humaines (société PerformanSe) – 3784 Ko (en français)-C...

Collocations in Japanese and Korean have been studied extensively based on statistical tools. The criteria for collocations in these languages, however, have not been fully established in the literature, and it is not obvious whether all statistically significant combinations of words could be regarded as collocations. In this article, we point out empirical problems in extracting collocations ...

This paper mines collocations from two different web usage corpora, NTU proxy log and TTS search log. The precisions for NTU and TTS test data are 61.76% and 57.50%, respectively, by human judgment for 2% sampling of extracted collocations. For automatic evaluation, we submit extracted collocation to Google search engine, and the resulting page counts are used to compute the mutual information ...

This study investigated the relationship between Iranian EFL learners’ use of strategies in producing English collocations and their proficiency level. Participants were 115 undergraduate university students at 3 proficiency levels, that is, low, intermediate, and high, majoring in English language at the Faculty of Letters and Humanties at Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran. Their select...

To investigate the effect of massed and distributed collaborative and non-collaborative presentation on L2 learners’ comprehension and production of lexical collocations, 105 participants at Takestan Islamic Azad University in 4 groups were assigned to four different treatment conditions (collaborative-massed; collaborative-distributed; noncollaborative-massed; and noncollaborative-distributed ...

This study aimed to discover the effect of mobile-assisted teaching of collocations on Iranian EFL learners’ reading achievement. For this purpose, a PET test was given to 85 intermediate EFL learners as the proficiency test. After homogenization, 30 female and male students within the age range of 16 to 30 years old from an institute in Alborz Province were selected as the participants in the ...

A number of authors (Lewis 1993, 1997, 2000, Woolard 2001, Thornbury 2002) writing for English language teachers have argued that collocations are arbitrary and therefore there is no point in attempting to explain them to foreign language learners in the classroom. It is my impression that these writers have been very influential with the result that this view of collocation is firmly entrenche...

Collocation extraction systems based on pure statistical methods suffer from two major problems. The first problem is their relatively low precision and recall rates. The second problem is their difficulty in dealing with sparse collocations. In order to improve performance, both statistical and lexicographic approaches should be considered. This paper presents a new method to extract synonymou...