This paper describes the application of statistical analysis of large corpora to the problem of extracting semantic relations from unstructured text. We regard this approach as a viable method for generating input for the construction of ontologies as ontologies use well-defined semantic relations as building blocks (cf. van der Vet & Mars 1998). Starting from a short description of our corpora...

This paper describes an attempt at investigating some collocational properties of translated language. The notion of collocation is one of the cornerstones of corpus linguistics, and has been the subject of substantial speculation and empirical research (section 2.1). Within translation studies, few works have tackled this issue, partly because of methodological conundrums (section 2.2). Yet co...

3 Cooccurrence and frequency counts 11 12 3.1 Surface cooccurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 13 3.2 Textual cooccurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 14 3.3 Syntactic cooccurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 15 3.4 Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Purpose This study aims to examine the effects of using mobile translation applications for translating collocations. Design/methodology/approach The followed an experimental design where 47 students English as foreign language in a Saudi university were randomly categorized into two groups. Both groups given task consisting 30 sentences with fixed, medium-strength and weak participants group (...

In previous papers we presented methods for retrieving collocations from large samples of texts. We described a tool, X t r a c t , that implements these methods and able to retrieve a wide range of collocations in a two stage process. These methods a.s well as other related methods however have some limitations. Mainly, the produced collocations do not include any kind of functional informatio...

Unsupervised features based on word representations such as word embeddings and word collocations have shown to significantly improve supervised NER for English. In this work we investigate whether such unsupervised features can also boost supervised NER in Spanish. To do so, we use word representations and collocations as additional features in a linear chain Conditional Random Field (CRF) cla...

This paper presents an annotated Chinese collocation bank developed at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The definition of collocation with good linguistic consistency and good computational operability is first discussed and the properties of collocations are then presented. Secondly, based on the combination of different properties, collocations are classified into four types. Thirdly, th...

The study of translation by bilingual female students studying Arabic had not received much attention, especially with regard to the cultural errors that these made during English-Arabic translations, which resulted in them making mistakes translation. This prompted researchers focus on this area. main objective article is explore common collocation among Federal College Education (Technical), ...