This paper examines whether the radio occultation (RO) measurements of the tropopause region are able to improve radiometric tropospheric profile retrievals, as represented by the ATOVS (Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder) temperature and humidity soundings from the NOAA16 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) satellite. First, a simulation study is presented wherein a stat...

A high speed of retrieval is very important to developing an effective image cube search algorithm for the remote sensing community. Following the work of Berman and Shapiro, it is shown that a triangle inequality search technique applied to a relevance feedback retrieval algorithm can significantly speed up the search for and retrieval of physical events of interest in large remote-sensing dat...

In previous papers we presented methods for retrieving collocations from large samples of texts. We described a tool, X t r a c t , that implements these methods and able to retrieve a wide range of collocations in a two stage process. These methods a.s well as other related methods however have some limitations. Mainly, the produced collocations do not include any kind of functional informatio...

Collocations constitute an important type of syntagmatic information whose introduction into WordNets has not yet been addressed. The goal of our work is the integration of the collocational material for the field of emotion nouns encoded in the DIccionario de colocaciones del español (DICE) in terms of Lexical Functions into the Spanish part of the EuroWordNet (SpEWN). Two features of collocat...

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...

Drawing on the assumptions of socio-cognitive linguistics, focusing on the effective role of interaction in terms of reducing the cognitive burden in the process of learning, this quasi-experimental study aimed at investigating the effect of the Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) usage on the learning and retention of non-congruent collocations among 60 homogenized Iranian EFL learners, aged 18 to 24...

  One of the most problematic areas in foreign language learning is collocation. It is often seen as arbitrary and an overwhelming obstacle to the achievement of nativelike fluency. Current second language (L2) instruction research has encouraged the use of collaborative output tasks in L2 classrooms. This study examined the effects of two types of output tasks (editing and cloze) on the learni...

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 ...

Acquiring vocabulary has always been recognized as a significant and challenging part of language learning process. In this study, the researcher examined the extent to which form recall of target lexical items by learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) is affected by a) repetition and b) by the type of target item; single words versus collocations. The treatment consisted of non-commun...