1. Introduction The notion of collocation has enjoyed mixed fortunes in the 50 odd years of its existence. Claimed to be obscure (Lyons, 1977: 612), counterproductive (Langendoen 1968: 63ff) and generally useless (Lehrer 1974) 1 by its detractors, the idea that part of the meaning of a word is somehow related to its " word accompaniment, the other word material in which [it is] most commonly or...

The appropriate use of collocations is a challenge for second language acquisition. However, high quality and easily accessible Chinese collocation resources are not available for both teachers and students. This paper presents the design and construction of a large scale resource of Chinese collocational knowledge, and a web-based application (OCCA, Online Chinese Collocation Assistant) which ...

This study examines how different dimensions of corpus frequency data may affect the outcome of statistical modeling of lexical items. Our analysis mainly focuses on a recently constructed elderly speaker corpus that is used to reveal patterns of aging people’s language use. A conversational corpus contributed by speakers in their 20s serves as complementary material. The target words examined ...

C o n t r a r y t o the l o n g h e l d b e l i e f o f t r a n s f o ~ n a t i o n a l E~mmar i ans f o r communica t ion i n g e n e r a l , t he m a j o r i t y c f natural languaEe sentences which people actually use in oomm u n i c a t i n g w i t h a c o ~ p u t e r , i n an u n c o n s t r a i n e d mode, a r e no t n o v e l . As Thompson and Thompson 1981s660 obselwez "monotony o f s t...

Analyzing compound nouns is one of the crucial issues for natural language processing systems, in particular for those systems that aim at a wide coverage of domaius. In this paper, we propose a mcthod to analyze structures of Japanese compound nouns by using both word collocations statistics and a thesaurus. An experiment is conducted with 160,000 word collocations to analyze comlmund nouns of...

In this paper, we propose a new method for extracting bilingual collocations from a parallel corpus to provide phrasal translation memories. The method integrates statistical and linguistic information to achieve effective extraction of bilingual collocations. The linguistic information includes parts of speech, chunks, and clauses. The method involves first obtaining an extended list of Englis...

Abstract The congruency effect—that is, faster and more accurate processing of congruent multiword units, has been demonstrated in multiple studies. It is still unclear, however, what its underlying mechanism how may interact with other factors. Using an acceptability judgement task, this study examined the effect immersive (Experiment 1) nonimmersive 2) L2 learners’ collocational while taking ...

test the hypothesis that words which are similar in meaning occur in similar contexts, this being a corollary of the initial hypothesis that the meaning of a word is defined by the collocational company which it keeps. This similarity is measured by creating 'collocational profiles'-summaries of the words typically occurring in the context of a given word-for each unique word form (type) in a l...