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...

This work presents an initial investigation on how to distinguish collocations from free combinations. The assumption is that , while free combinations can be literally translated, the overall meaning of collocations is different from the sum of the translation of its parts. Based on that, we verify whether a machine translation system can help us perform such distinction. Results show that it ...

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...

background several studies showed that dopamine and norepinephrine improve retention and retrieval of memory. methylphenidate is an enhancer of dopamine and norepinephrine in brain. objectives in the present study, the effect of methylphenidate was evaluated on retention and retrieval of memory in young and aged mice using passive avoidance apparatus. materials and methods animals were divided ...

This paper presents a hybrid method for extracting Chinese noun phrase collocations that combines a statistical model with rule-based linguistic knowledge. The algorithm first extracts all the noun phrase collocations from a shallow parsed corpus by using syntactic knowledge in the form of phrase rules. It then removes pseudo collocations by using a set of statistic-based association measures (...

This study examines the relative role of collocations (and its sub-types) and effect sociolinguistic factors on reading comprehension skills 4th-grade primary school students learning Turkish as a second language (L2). For this purpose, recruits L1 L2 from Başakşehir, Beylikdüzü, Fatih, Esenler districts Istanbul. The researchers collected data using Language Social Background Questionnaire (LS...

This study investigates the influence of using five web-based practice units on English verb-noun collocations with the design of a web-based Chinese-English bilingual concordancer (keyword retrieval program) on collocation learning. Thirty-two college EFL students participated by taking a pre-test and two post-tests, and responding to a background questionnaire and an evaluation questionnaire....