Abs t rac t . Collocational analysis is the basis of many s tud ies on lexical acquis i t ion . Collocations are extracted from corpora using more or less shallow processing techniques, that span from purely statistical methods to partial parsers. Our point is that, despite one of tile objectives of collocational analysis is to acquire high-coverage lexical data at low human cost, this is often...

We describe sister machine translation prototypes, Ntran, an English to Japanese system developed at UMIST, and Aidtrans, Japanese to English, at Sheffield, both designed for use by an English monolingual. Aidtraus uses extensive and sophisticated collocational analysis radically to reduce the need for conventional post-editing. Ntran offers interactive query at three stages: on-line dictionary...

Lexical information is one of the most important source that can improve the accuracy of the syntactic disambigua-tion. This paper describes a Korean probabilistic parser that is based on the probabilities of phrase structure rules as well as the probabilities of collocational information between lexical items to resolve syntactic ambiguity. The proposed parser is shown by means of an extensive...

This paper discusses the lexicographical concept of lexical functions (Mel'~uk and Zolkovsky, 1984) and their potential exploitation in the development of a machine translation lexicon designed to handle collocations. We show how lexical functions can be thought to reflect cross-linguistic meaning concepts for collocational structures and their translational equivalents, and therefore suggest t...

Subjectivity in natural language refers to aspects of language used to express opinions and evaluations (Banfield, 1982; Wiebe, 1994). There are numerous applications for which knowledge of subjectivity is relevant, including genre detection, information extraction, and information retrieval. This paper shows promising results for a straightforward method of identifying collocational clues of s...

We like people and objects more when they are described in positive than negative terms. But even seemingly neutral words can elicit or responses. This is the case for that predominantly occur alongside (or negative) natural language. Despite lacking positivity/negativity evaluated isolation, such semantically prosodic activate evaluative associations of their usual company, which color judgmen...

Collocations are ubiquitous in everyday language, which help language users sound more natural and ease the processing burden during production. They also commonly taught foreign classrooms those learners who can master these prevalent word combinations chunks get to use fluently as they enjoy a advantage. There different approaches definition of frequently co-occurring combinations, but curren...

One of the hardest problems for knowledge extraction from machine readable textual sources is distinguishing entities and events that are part of the main story from those that are part of the narrative structure, hnportantly, however, reported sl)eech in newspaper articles explicitly links these two levels. In this paper, we illustrate what the lexical semantics of reporting verbs must incorpo...