These sentences are extracted from a corpus of the proccedings of the Canadian Parliament, also called the Hansards corpus. As required by law, the Hansards corpus have both the English and the French for each sentence.The corpus consists of a number of pairs of files, one written in English and the other one in French. We used a version of the Hansards in which the sentences have been aligned ...

In this paper we address the organization and use of the lexicon giving special consideration to how the salience of certain aspects of abstract semantic structure may be expressed. We propose an organization of the lexicon and its interaction with grammar and knowledge that makes extensive use of lexical funct ions from the Meaning-Text-Theory of Mel'~uk. We integrate this approach with the ar...

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Collocation learning is one of the important building blocks for the development of language competence. Remarkably, it is influenced by L1 and L2 congruency. The present study thus focused on the distinguishability of the computational similarity values between L2 collocates and L1 counterparts to establish the use of semantic similarity measure as a research instrument. The results showed tha...

Abstract This study was to assess the spoken vocabulary knowledge and its role in incidental learning from captioned television. The participants were a total of 87 minority students English as foreign language Australia. breadth their measured with size test, while depth through an assessment collocational semantic relationships. results indicated that (1) videos are helpful for learning; (2) ...

This study explores the role of corpus linguistics in addressing lexicographic challenges over past ten years. It examines 25 studies published from 2012 to 2021 that employed solutions solve problems. Challenging tasks are either relevant macrostructure or microstructure dictionaries. In decade, lexicographers made extensive use tools create dictionaries and improve existing ones. effort inclu...

Choosing the wrong word in a machine translation or natural language generation system can convey unwanted connotations, implications, or attitudes. The choice between near-synonyms such as error, mistake, slip, and blunder — words that share the same core meaning, but differ in their nuances — can be made only if knowledge about their differences is available. We present a method to automatica...