We introduce a method for learning to describe the attendant contexts of a given query for language learning. In our approach, we display phraseological information in the form of a summary of general patterns as well as lexical bundles anchored at the query. The method involves syntactical analyses and inverted file construction. At run-time, grammatical constructions and their lexical instant...

While much is known about how lexical tones are perceived in isolation, little has been done on the perception of tones in connected speech. This study, via visual world paradigm, investigates effect of contextual tonal variation on speech recognition in Tianjin Mandarin, where three types of contextual tonal variation have been identified: Near-Merger Sandhi, No-Merger Sandhi, and No-Sandhi Co...

The application of statistical approaches to problems in natural language processing generally requires large (1,000,000÷ words) corpora to produce useful results. In this paper we show that a well-known statistical technique, the t test, can be applied to smaller corpora than was previously thought possible, by relying on semantic features rather than lexical items in a corpus of limited domai...

The year 2009 has witnessed a global outbreak of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1. Despite the high exposure on the mass media, few researches have been conducted on the discourse related to the H1N1 event. This study examined six frequently-occurred lexical items in a pandemic (H1N1) corpus: influenza, pandemic, cases, virus, transmission and death, using Sinclair’s (2004) descri...

We 1 describe our attempts to automatically extract raw material for a dictionary of German noun-verb collocations from large corpora of newspaper text. Such a dictionary should be about collocations and it should include a description of their linguistic properties, rather than listing the mere lexical cooccurrence. Since most statistical collocation nding tools do not provide other than lexic...

Lexical chunks have in recent years become widely recognized as a crucial aspect of second language competence. We address two major sorts of challenge that chunks pose for lexicography and describe computational approaches to addressing these challenges. The first challenge is lexical knowledge discovery, that is, the need to uncover which strings of words constitute chunks worthy of learners’...

This paper aims to present the methodology and guidelines for annotation in CKIP Chinese Treebank. Under the framework of the Information-based Case grammar (ICG), a lexical feature-based grammar formalism, which stipulates each lexical item containing both syntactic and semantic information, the potential phrasal heads of input are located and the semantic relations between words are also iden...

We present a proposal for the structuring of collocation knowledge 1 in the lexicon of a multilingual generation system and show to what extent it can be used in the process of lexical selection. This proposal is part of Polygloss, a new research project on multilingual generation, and it has been inspired by work carried out in the S EMSYN project (see e.g. [I~(~SNEtt 198812). The descriptive ...