Malapropism is a (real-word) error in a text consisting in unintended replacement of one content word by another existing content word similar in sound but semantically incompatible with the context and thus destructing text cohesion, e.g.: they travel around the word. We present an algorithm of malapropism detection and correction based on evaluating the cohesion. As a measure of semantic comp...

Extensive knowledge of collocations is a key factor that distinguishes learners from fluent native speakers. Such knowledge is difficult to acquire simply because there is so much of it. This paper describes a system that exploits the facilities offered by digital libraries to provide a rich collocation-learning environment. The design is based on three processes that have been identified as le...

Collocations are defined as syntactically connected and semantically compatible pairs of content components, like Spanish prestar atención ‘give attention’, presidente del país ‘president of the country’, país grande ‘large country’ or muy bien ‘very well’. The collocation databases are important for numerous applications of computational linguistics. A small system storing Spanish collocations...

Since the beginning of 2020, Covid-19 pandemic has changed not only many aspects everyday life, but also lexical systems languages. Polish and Russian have been enriched with numerous derivatives, loan words, as well new collocations pretending to become neophrasemes. The linguistic image consists miscellaneous metaphorical expressions picturing reality in terms war, sports’ competitions or nat...

Abstract In this study we examine the linguistic complexity and lexical properties of discourse associated with second person singular forms address (2PS) in Spanish spoken Medellín, Colombia. This variety exhibits use a tripartite system 2PS, which voseo , tuteo ustedeo are used, sometimes interchanged, according to sociopragmatic factors. By means completion task (DCT), 672 responses were col...

Lexical collocations are a fuzzy phenomenon that has not yet been satisfactorily explained by linguistic theory. At the same time, they are important both for understanding the structure of language and for many applications such as lexicography and natural language processing. Corpus-based studies of collocations as well as collocation extraction tools have been influenced by two basic views: ...

This article describes a practical approach to judging the nature and quality of critical discourse in a computer conference. A model of a critical community of inquiry frames the research. A core concept in defining a community of inquiry is cognitive presence. In turn, the practical inquiry model operationalizes cognitive presence for the purpose of developing a tool to assess critical discou...

The present study attempts a political discourse analysis of spoken Arabic corpus on the death Nelson Mandela. mainly consists coverage some Arabic-speaking TV channels that was broadcasted in aftermath announcement Mandela's 2013. discourse-historical approach employed with view to finding out various topoi and ideologies deployed corpus. For this purpose, used first transcribed using EUDICO L...

Collocations, i.e., recurrent word combinations such as take advantage (of), strong tea, and deeply absorbed, are receiving increasing attention in SLA research because of their importance to “native-like” production of language. Previous studies suggest that collocations pose a serious challenge to language learners and that learners’ L1 plays a crucial role in this respect. My paper aims to s...

In this paper we present a proposal including collocations into the pre-processing of the text mining, which we use for the fast news article recommendation and experiments based on real data from the biggest Slovak newspaper. The news article section can be predicted based on several article’s characteristics as article name, content, keywords etc. We provided experiments aimed at comparison o...