CDB is a relational database designed for the particular needs of representing lexical collocations. The relational model is defined such that competence-based descriptions of collocations (the competence base) and actually occurring collocation examples extracted from text corpora (the example base) complete each other. In the paper, the relational model is described and examples for the repre...

In this paper, we propose a phrase segmentation model for the phrase-based statistical machine translation. We observed that good translation candidates generated by a conventional phrase-based SMT decoder have lexical cohesion and show more uniform translation for each phrase segment. Based on the observation, we propose a novel phrase segmentation model using collocation between two adjacent ...

In this report two programs for statistical analysis of concordance lines are described. The programs have been developed for analysing the lexical context of a given word. It is shown how different parameter settings influence the outcome of collocational analysis, and how the concept of collocation can be extended to allow the extraction of lines typical for a word from a set of concordance l...

We introduce the possibility of combining lexical association measures and present empirical results of several methods employed in automatic collocation extraction. First, we present a comprehensive summary overview of association measures and their performance on manually annotated data evaluated by precision-recall graphs and mean average precision. Second, we describe several classification...

There is a certain consensus on some defining features of collocations (they are frequent, recurrent, conventional, institutionalized, etc.), but there is not much agreement on other characteristics, for example whether or not they constitute binary lexical relations, and — crucially— whether they are arbitrary, and must be stipulated, or should instead be deduced or inferred. I will argue that...

Collocation is a common language phenomenon which has attracted the interest of researchers in many subfields of both theoretical and computational linguistics. Although there is no commonly accepted and precise definition of this phenomenon, collocations are generally understood as complex lexical items, often characterized as unpredictable, idiosyncratic, holistic, mutually selective, and so ...

Comparable corpus is the most important resource in several NLP tasks. However, it is very expensive to collect manually. Lexical borrowing happened in almost all languages. We can use the loanwords to detect useful bilingual knowledge and expand the size of donor-recipient / recipient-donor comparable corpora. In this paper, we propose a recurrent neural network (RNN) based framework to identi...

In China, English, as an important tool for self-expression and mutual communication, is paid great attention to all over the country and College English has become a compulsory course at all colleges and universities. English writing is one of the most important language skills for college students. For a long time, English writing has been the throe throat for college students, which manifest...