Five articles present perspectives on the use of VPCs as used in different texts and contexts: that of animal-related VPCs in Panther and Thornburg, VPCs in child and adult interaction in data taken from the CHILDES corpus in Hampe’s article, economics and finance texts in Breeze’s, VPCs in cartoons in Kihr’s, and constructions made by L2 learners of the VPCs as reflected in a corpus of learner...

Grammatical relationships (GRs) form an important level of natural language processing, but di erent sets of GRs are useful for di erent purposes. Therefore, one may often only have time to obtain a small training corpus with the desired GR annotations. To boost the performance from using such a small training corpus on a transformation rule learner, we use existing systems that nd related type...

One of the most common and persistent error types in second language writing is collocation errors, such as learn knowledge instead of gain or acquire knowledge, or make damage rather than cause damage. In this work-inprogress report, we propose a probabilistic model for suggesting corrections to lexical collocation errors. The probabilistic model incorporates three features: word association s...