collocations are one of the areas generally considered problematic for efl learners. iranian learners of english like other efl learners face various problems in producing oral collocations.  an analysis of learners' spoken interlanguage both indicates the scope of the problem and the necessity to spend more time and energy by learners on mastering collocations. the present study specifically f...

‎In this paper‎, ‎an approach based on statistical spline model (SSM) and collocation method is proposed to solve Volterra-Fredholm integral equations‎. ‎The set of collocation nodes is chosen so that the points yield minimal error in the nodal polynomials‎. ‎Under some standard assumptions‎, ‎we establish the convergence property of this approach‎. ‎Numerical results on some problems are given...

This paper presents a class of efficient Newton-type algorithms for solving the nonlinear programs (NLPs) arising from applying a direct collocation approach to continuous time optimal control. The idea is based on an implicit lifting technique including a condensing and expansion step, such that the structure of each subproblem corresponds to that of the multiple shooting method for direct opt...

Collocations can be defined as words that occur together significantly more often than it would be expected by chance. Many natural language processing applications such as natural language generation, word sense disambiguation and machine translation can benefit from having access to information about collocated words. We approach collocation extraction as a classification problem where the ta...

The semidiscretization in space of Volterra-Fredholm integral equations (arising, for example, as mathematical models of the spreading of epidemics) leads to large systems of Volterra integral equations. Here, we study inexpensive timestepping methods using certain DQ (= direct quadrature) methods which are employed in a way that exploits the local superconvergence properties of spatial colloca...

Collocation has always been an important issue in language research, especially in Chinese language researches. Chinese is an isolated language, which lacks morphological changes.Establishing a relatively complete dictionary of Chinese collocation will be a great contribution to Chinese study and research. Collocation plays a significant supporting role in many fields of NLP, such as informatio...

In this paper, we report about some preliminary experiments in which we tried to improve the performance of a state-of-the-art Predictive Typing system for the German language by adding a collocation-based prediction component. This component tries to exploit the fact that texts have a topic and are semantically coherent. Thus, the appearance in a text of a certain word can be a cue that other,...