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...

This paper presents a supervised method for resolving metonymies. We enhance a commonly used feature set with features extracted based on collocation information from corpora, generalized using lexical and encyclopedic knowledge to determine the preferred sense of the potentially metonymic word using methods from unsupervised word sense disambiguation. The methodology developed addresses one is...

there is insufficient rigorous research examining which features of efl/esl learners’ writing can be improved through their awareness/knowledge of collocation. this study, therefore, addressed this issue and examined the effect of this awareness on iranian efl learners’ writing performance with respect to the specific features of each writing sub-component (i.e., content, organization, vocabula...

Language-endowed intelligent agents benefit from leveraging lexical knowledge falling at different points along a spectrum of compositionality. This means that robust computational lexicons should include not only the compositional expectations of argument-taking words, but also non-compositional collocations (idioms), semi-compositional collocations that might be difficult for an agent to inte...

This paper presents a novel method for organizing and presenting collocations in a specialized dictionary of computing and the Internet. This work is undertaken in order to meet a specific user need, i.e. that of searching for a collocate (or a short list of collocates) that expresses a specific meaning in a text production situation. The model we suggest is based on lexical functions (=LFs) th...

Working memory is one of the most investigated topics in cognitive psychology and neuropsychology since it plays a key role architecture human system. Reasoning, problem solving, learning would be not possible without contribution working memory. deeply involved linguistic processes essential activities such as reading. Recent scientific research, especially Anglo-Saxon context, has begun to in...

In this paper, we address the issue of syntagmatic expressions from a computational lexical semantic perspective. From a representational viewpoint, we argue for a hybrid approach combining linguistic and conceptual paradigms, in order to account for the continuum we find in natural languages from free combining words to frozen expressions. In particular, we focus on the place of lexical and se...

the importance and howness of language learning/ acquisition has been a great concern for decades. there are many factors that play important roles in this regard. this research compared the performance of native persian and english elementary students to see if there is any significant difference between the two groups and which type of collocation they performed better within the groups. for ...