This paper combines a corpus-based study of noun+verb collocations with an attempt to distinguish compositional, regularly formed compounds from lexicalised ones. We claim that morphologically regular, compositional compounds share most of their collocational preferences with their compound heads, whereas lexicalised compounds have their own collocational preferences, distinct or only marginall...

Today’s ERP and CRM systems provide companies with nearly unlimited possibilities for collecting data concerning their customers. More and more of these data are more or less unstructured textual data. A good example of this type of data is customer feedback, which can potentially be used to improve customer satisfaction. However, merely getting an overview of what lies in an unstructured mass ...

Abstract Given the importance of collocational knowledge for second language learning, how collocation learning can be facilitated is an important question. The present study examined effects three different practice schedules on learning: node massed, and spaced. In node-massed schedule, collocations same verb were studied day. collocation-massed in weeks. collocation-spaced participants encou...

The real difficulty in development of practical NLP systems comes from the fact that we do not have effective means for gathering "knowledge". In this paper, we propose an algorithm which acquires automatically knowledge of semantic collocations among "words" from sample corpora. The algorithm proposed in this paper tries to discover semantic collocations which will be useful for disambiguating...

Collocation identification and anaphora resolution are widely recognized as major issues for natural language processing, and particularly for machine translation. This paper focuses on their intersection domain, that is verb-object collocations in which the object has been pronominalized. To handle such cases, an anaphora resolution procedure must link the direct object pronoun to its antecede...

Subjectivity in natural language refers to aspects of language used to express opinions and evaluations (Banfield, 1982; Wiebe, 1994). There are numerous applications for which knowledge of subjectivity is relevant, including genre detection, information extraction, and information retrieval. This paper shows promising results for a straightforward method of identifying collocational clues of s...