We introduce a method for learning to describe the attendant contexts of a given query for language learning. In our approach, we display phraseological information in the form of a summary of general patterns as well as lexical bundles anchored at the query. The method involves syntactical analyses and inverted file construction. At run-time, grammatical constructions and their lexical instant...

We present the development strategies and results of the CroMo morphological analyzer for Croatian. It was designed as a monolithic finite state based morphological segmentation and annotation tool, that emits feature bundles for all recognized morphemes and sub-morphemes, and generates lemmata for the lexical root and complex compounds in one swoop. Its linguistic base uses morphological and m...

Monolingual corpora were first thought of as an excellent basis for lexicographical research but, as time went on, research projects extended to various kinds of analysis, from the lexicon, to syntactic patterns to various aspects of text structure. Nowadays the study of the general lexicon covers the analysis of single and multi-word units in context, collocations, lexical groups, lexical 'bun...

the present study aims at investigating the effect of different levels of lexical collocational density on efl learners’ reading comprehension. eighty sophomore students with different levels of proficiency studying at  zand institute of higher education in shiraz, iran were chosen from among eighty five learners based on their score distribution on a reduced toefl test constructed by education...