This paper uses corpus-based interlanguage comparative analysis to investigate the similarities and differences in frequency collocations of ten high-frequency prepositions native English speakers' corpus Chinese learners' corpus. The results show that overall these each is on relative level, but there are phenomena overuse underuse when it comes use every single preposition. In addition, found...

In this paper, we describe TANGO as a collocational concordancer for looking up collocations. The system was designed to answer user’s query of bilingual collocational usage for nouns, verbs and adjectives. We first obtained collocations from the large monolingual British National Corpus (BNC). Subsequently, we identified collocation instances and translation counterparts in the bilingual corpu...

The work presented provides computational linguistics methods and tools for collocation identiication from arbitrary text, and methods and tools for representing collocations in a relational database integrating competence (collocation-type-speciic linguistic analysis) and performance information (corpus sentences). The work diiers from existing approaches to collo-cation identiication in syste...

1. Objective Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is the task of determining the right sense of a polysemous word in a given context. This study aims to enhance the performance of supervised-based word sense determination by focusing on feature selection and using bootstrapping techniques. Senses determination of a word is essentially based on the information extracted from the context in which this...

This paper describes the application of statistical analysis of large corpora to the problem of extracting semantic relations from unstructured text. We regard this approach as a viable method for generating input for the construction of ontologies as ontologies use well-defined semantic relations as building blocks (cf. van der Vet & Mars 1998). Starting from a short description of our corpora...

This paper describes an attempt at investigating some collocational properties of translated language. The notion of collocation is one of the cornerstones of corpus linguistics, and has been the subject of substantial speculation and empirical research (section 2.1). Within translation studies, few works have tackled this issue, partly because of methodological conundrums (section 2.2). Yet co...

3 Cooccurrence and frequency counts 11 12 3.1 Surface cooccurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 13 3.2 Textual cooccurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 14 3.3 Syntactic cooccurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 15 3.4 Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

The developing system described here is planned to provide the business executive with useful applications for the computer processing of correspondence in the office environment. Applications will include the synopsis and abstraction of incoming mail and a variety of critiques of newly-generated letters, all based upon the capability of understanding the natural language text at least to a lev...

Context-free grammars have been a cornerstone of theoretical computer science and computational linguistics since their inception over half a century ago. Topic models are a newer development in machine learning that play an important role in document analysis and information retrieval. It turns out there is a surprising connection between the two that suggests novel ways of extending both gram...