This paper outlines a corpus-based method for the analysis of metonymic expressions based on a series of quantitative and qualitative analyses. While an intuitive approach to metonymy successfully identifies lexical items which have metonymic extensions, intuition alone cannot settle the question how these extensions map onto linguistic form. Consider the expression set all hearts on fire, whic...

This final project studied the analysis of cohesion found on students’ descriptive test writing in SMP N 01 Tayu. The design research was qualitative research. objectives study were (1) To find out type competence by eight grade Tayu producing text, (2) show dominant at their text Tayu, (3) to describe text. object 1 instruments data from students discussions prior chapters are be summarized ac...

This paper explored the types of collocations used in an English textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris (SMA/MA/SMK/MAK, Kelas X, Semester 1). The primary source data was textbook, Inggris, which published by Indonesian government for first-year or class 10 students senior high schools (SMA/MA/SMK/MAK). study a corpus analysis. researchers utilized AntCont 3.5.8 to extract and discover required then ...

In this paper we describe and test a two stage algorithm based on a lexical collocation technique which maps from the lexical clues contained in a document representation into a controlled vocabulary list of subject headings. Using a collection of 4,626 INSPEC documents, we create a “dictionary” of associations between the lexical items contained in the titles, authors and abstracts and control...

This article attempts to analyze the differences and similarities in domain, collocation, semantic prosody of Chinese synonyms “jiǎn, qiē, kǎn, gē” native language corpus learner corpus, using online retrieval tool Sketch Engine. Firstly, usage domains word frequency distributions these four verbs are statistically analyzed. Secondly, common collocations retrieved sorted based on LogDice values...

In an effort to better understand meaning from natural language texts, we explore methods aimed at organizing lexical objects into contexts. A number of these methods for organization fall into a family defined by word ordering. Unlike demographic or spatial partitions of data, these collocation models are of special importance for their universal applicability. While we are interested here in ...

Collocations constitute a subclass of multi-word expressions that are particularly problematic for machine translation, due 1) to their omnipresence in texts, and 2) to their morpho-syntactic properties, allowing virtually unlimited variation and leading to long-distance dependencies. Since existing MT systems incorporate mostly local information, these are arguably ill-suited for handling thos...

Collocations, or restricted lexical co-occurrence, are a difficult issue in natural language processing because their semantics cannot be derived from the semantics of their constituents. Therefore, such verb-noun combinations as “take a break,” “catch a bus,” “have lunch” can be interpreted incorrectly by automatic semantic analysis. Since collocations are combinations frequently used in texts...

It has been understood for a long time that the semantic content of a combination of two or more words often cannot be derived from the semantics of the single words, but that the use of one particular word imposes restrictions upon others (Firth 1957; Evert 2004, 15–17). The semantics is then either determined by the ruling word, e.g., in the case of light verb constructions (attention entails...