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This paper proposes a new method to find correspondences of uninterrupted collocations from Japanese-English bilingual corpora without sentence-to-sentence alignment. Uninterrupted collocations in English such as “once again”, “give up”, or “gross national product” handled as a single word or a compound word in Japanese, can be automatically extracted with corresponding Japanese words using wor...

Statistical bilingual word alignment has been well studied in the context of machine translation. This paper adapts the bilingual word alignment algorithm to monolingual scenario to extract collocations from monolingual corpus. The monolingual corpus is first replicated to generate a parallel corpus, where each sentence pair consists of two identical sentences in the same language. Then the mon...

K E Y W O R D S : corpus linguistics, courtroom discourse, domestic violence, forensic linguistics, O.J. Simpson, semantic prosody 1. Corpus linguistics, connotation and semantic prosody Collocation, ‘the company a word keeps’ to use Firth’s (1957) definition, can tell us a great deal about the semantic shape of a word or phrase, and one particular collocational characteristic, semantic prosody...

This paper describes a statistical methodology ibr automatically retrieving collocations from POS tagged Korean text using interrupted bigrams. The free order of Korean makes it hard to identify collocations. We devised four statistics, 'frequency', 'randomness', 'condensation', and 'correlation' .to account for the more flexible word order properties of Korean collocations. We extracted meanin...

john Swales is a professor of linguistics and codirector of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University and has spent most of his career in linguistics working with nonnative speakers of English on strategies to help them succeed as readers and writers in the university. His publications include English in Today's...