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...

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...

This paper presents a detailed survey of word co-occurrence measures used in natural language processing. Word co-occurrence information is vital for accurate computational text treatment, it is important to distinguish words which can combine freely with other words from other words whose preferences to generate phrases are restricted. The latter words together with their typical co-occurring ...

as oral skills are increasingly seen as a high priority, phonology and pronuncia tion teaching are occupying a central position in the teaching and learning of other languages. the present study is an attempt to shed some light on identifying and exploring the diffculties of iranian efl learners in phonology and pronunciation. to achieve this goal, 3 male language learners (elementary, intermed...

one of the most problematic areas in foreign language learning is collocation. it is often seen as arbitrary and an overwhelming obstacle to the achievement of nativelike fluency. current second language (l2) instruction research has encouraged the use of collaborative output tasks in l2 classrooms. this study examined the effects of two types of output tasks (editing and cloze) on the learning...

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: ...

Synthetic Aperture Radar is known to be able provide high-resolution estimates of surface wind speed. These usually rely on a Geophysical Model Function (GMF) that has difficulties accounting for non-wind processes such as rain events. Convolutional neural network, the other hand, have capacity use contextual information and demonstrated their ability delimit rainfall areas. By carefully buildi...

The article presents a software system that implements a multimedia database management server. The software has a modularized architecture controlled by a relational database system. An element of originality is that along with the classical functionality of such a system, it includes specialized modules for extracting texture and color characteristics from images and for executing content bas...