In this paper, I introduce the DICI, an electronic dictionary of Italian collocations designed to support the acquisition of the collocational competence in learners of Italian as a second or foreign language. I briefly describe the composition of the reference Italian corpus from which the collocations are extracted, and the methodology of extraction and filtering of candidate collocations. It...

Collocation is defined as a sequence of lexical tokens which habitually co-occur. This type of information is widely used in various applications such as Information Retrieval, document indexing, machine translation, lexicography, etc. Therefore, many techniques are developed for the automatic retrieval of collocations from textual documents. These techniques use statistical measures based on a...

This paper proposes that meanings in text are both created and understood by matching actual text occurrences (or creations) against patterns of usage stored in the brain. A ‘pattern’ in this sense has two elements: valency, which is comparatively stable, and one or more sets of preferred collocations, which are highly variable. To understand collocations, we draw on prototype theory developed ...

This paper1 discusses the use of recursive chunking of large German corpora (over 300 million words) for the identification and partial classification of significant lexical cooccurrences of adjectives and verbs. The goal is to provide a fine-grained syntactic classification of the data at the levels of subcategorization and scrambling. We analyze the combinatory preferences of adjectives with ...

Collocations are always present in every reading. Reading comprehension followed by collocation mastery. The objective of this research is (1) to investigate the students’ lexical mastery (2) reading achievement (3) significant correlation between and their English Department at 5th Semester UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu. Correlational study was applied as a method. There were 30 students take...

Abstract Multiword units have experienced renewed interest in recent research due to their prominent role usage-based approaches general linguistics, as well work on bilingualism and second language acquisition. While the last few decades focused figurative multiword (i.e., idioms), a growing number of studies more recently non-figurative (collocations particular, but also binomials or lexical ...

This study aims to investigate the treatment of semantic features at word and phraseology levels in Arabic/English translation. It demonstrates by using enough textual data that translation involves significant decision-making lexis when considering features. The corpus includes mismatches both multi-word units. translator's awareness symmetries asymmetries language pair constitutes a foundatio...

Much interest has recently been directed toward the knowledge of collocations in the field of second language learning since they have been asserted to improve fluency. The current study was intended to examine the effect of verbal and visuospatial working memory spans on the processing of collocations using a Self-Pace Reading Task (SPRT) and relevant working memory tasks. To this end, partici...

Statistical-based collocation extraction approaches suffer from (1) low precision rate because high co-occurrence bi-grams may be syntactically unrelated and are thus not true collocations; (2) low recall rate because some true collocations with low occurrences cannot be identified successfully by statistical-based models. To integrate both syntactic rules as well as semantic knowledge into a s...