This study investigated the erroneous use of high-frequency verb TAKE by Chinese college learners English as a foreign language (EFL), aiming to identify similarities and differences between EFL learners, aimed at finding out more effective ways for teaching researching verbs. Corpus-based Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis Error were carried in present study, with subcorpora ST4 ST6 CLEC (Chin...

Statistical analysis of spelling error trends in a language plays important role in automatic spelling error detection and correction. Comprehensive statistical analysis of spelling error trends for Sindhi is still subject of research. This research study identifies and analyses the spelling error trends in Sindhi. The statistical analysis of error trends is based on a real time corpus collecte...

We present in this paper our work on comparison between Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) and Rule-based machine translation for translation from Marathi to Hindi. Rule Based systems although robust take lots of time to build. On the other hand statistical machine translation systems are easier to create, maintain and improve upon. We describe the development of a basic Marathi-Hindi SMT sy...

A system tbr lexical acquisition is presented where word meanings are represented by clusters of phrase patterns obtained from analysis of a text corpus. A sample of cases, in the form of a concordance of phrases in which a particular word occurs in the text, is used Ibr the basic analysis. Clustering techniques are used to group together cases having similar grammar and/or meaning. This view i...

The paper describes the design and implementation of an XML-based corpus environment for prosodically annotated data. The TASX-environment (TASX: Time Aligned Signal data eXchange format) constitutes the technical basis for a corpus designed to explore the acquisition of prosody by second language learners. It supports all aspects of the corpus setup procedure: XML-based annotation of the speec...

Abstract The present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate Iranian EFL learners' writing ability. For this study, 84 Iranian learners, studying English as a foreign language in Bayan Institute, Iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. Conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control...

Abstract The present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate Iranian EFL learners' writing ability. For this study, 84 Iranian learners, studying English as a foreign language in Bayan Institute, Iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. Conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control...