Drawing on the assumptions of socio-cognitive linguistics, focusing on the effective role of interaction in terms of reducing the cognitive burden in the process of learning, this quasi-experimental study aimed at investigating the effect of the Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) usage on the learning and retention of non-congruent collocations among 60 homogenized Iranian EFL learners, aged 18 to 24...

We introduce FipsCoView, an on-line interface for dictionary-like visualisation of collocations detected from parallel corpora using a syntactically-informed extraction method.

In this paper, we address the issue of syntagmatic expressions from a computational lexical semantic perspective. From a representational viewpoint, we argue for a hybrid approach combining linguistic and conceptual paradigms, in order to account for the continuum we find in natural languages from free combining words to frozen expressions. In particular, we focus on the place of lexical and se...

The study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of corpusrelated studies in linguistics between 2000 and 2015. Results show that the output of corpus-related publications have significantly increased in the past 15 years. In addition, traditional scientific powers such as the United States play leading roles in the area, while developing countries such as China also exert their impact in the ...

Dissertation Abstract comprise words for which neither word can be substituted by a synonym or hyponym. Potential colloca-tions comprising certain adjacent part-of-speech tags are extracted from text. An online thesaurus and a lexical database of word classes are queried for synonyms and hypo nyms, respectively, for each potential collocation. These queries create potential challenger pairs, su...

Abstract Corpus tools are known to be effective in helping L2 learners improve their writing, especially regarding use of words. Most corpus-based writing research has focused on university students while little attention been paid secondary school students. This study investigated whether senior China, upon receiving training under the framework data-driven learning (DDL), could vocabulary use...

Collocations constitute a subclass of multi-word expressions that are particularly problematic for machine translation, due 1) to their omnipresence in texts, and 2) to their morpho-syntactic properties, allowing virtually unlimited variation and leading to long-distance dependencies. Since existing MT systems incorporate mostly local information, these are arguably ill-suited for handling thos...

This document describes an implemented system of collocation extraction which is designed as aid to translation and which will be used in a real translation environment. Its main functionalities are: retrieving multi-word collocations from an existing corpus of documents in a given language (only French and English are supported for the time being); visualizing the list of extracted terms and t...

Building a Lexical Knowledge-Base of Near-Synonym Differences Diana Inkpen Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2004 Current natural language generation or machine translation systems cannot distinguish among near-synonyms—words that share the same core meaning but vary in their lexical nuances. This is due to a lack of knowledge about differences b...