This paper presents the mechanisms of and criteria for compiling a new learner corpus of English, the quantitative characteristics of the corpus and a practical example of its pedagogical application. The Taiwanese Learner Corpus of English (TLCE), probably the largest annotated learner corpus of English in Taiwan so far, contains 2105 pieces of English writing (around 730,000 words) from Taiwa...

â  a geographical dimension in the poetry of de’bil al- khozaee â  â  abdul rasoul ghaffari * â  â abstractâ in this article, we attempt to study de'bil al-khozaee's poetry. we find him a person who travelled a lot around the west and the east of islamic world. in his journey, he acquired knowledge, belles-letters, morals and also wealth. what is important for us in this research is...

A method is presented for segmenting documents into conceptually related areas. Determining the equivalence of text is often based on the number of word repetitions. This approach is unsuitable for detecting short segments because terms tend not to be repeated across just a few sentences. In this paper we investigate the contribution of two other lexical features to find related words: collocat...

Abstract This study investigates ‘repetition’ in the English translation of the Arabic Novel, Adrift on the Nile (1993). It aims to explore the communicative functions of ‘repetition’ and to see if these functions have been maintained or lost in the process of translating the Novel. In addition, it seeks to find the translation strategies used in rendering ‘repetition’. To achieve this aim, a d...

Bootstrapping semantics from text is one of the greatest challenges in natural language learning. Earlier research showed that it is possible to automatically identify words that are semantically similar to a given word based on the syntactic collocation patterns of the words. We present an approach that goes a step further by obtaining a tree structure among the most similar words so that diie...

Syntagmatic fixedness is an important feature of multi-word expressions (MWE). However, syntagmatic fixedness is gradual and various semantic and syntactic relations hold among the parts of MWEs. This poses intriguing problems for lexicography, linguistic description and language processing. In this paper we propose a computationally inexpensive and intuitive approach to the measurement of synt...

Lexical collocations are a fuzzy phenomenon that has not yet been satisfactorily explained by linguistic theory. At the same time, they are important both for understanding the structure of language and for many applications such as lexicography and natural language processing. Corpus-based studies of collocations as well as collocation extraction tools have been influenced by two basic views: ...

abstractibn-nubatah is one of the poets of deterioration era who lived at this time so hispoetry has the trace of both the imitation and repetition of the poets of that time. heused a kind of poetic theme in his poems that lacks the privilege and typicality of agood poem because he imitated some poets like emre'al- qays, tarafah ibn al-a’bd,khansa, hassan ibn sabet al-ansary, ka’b ibn ...

In this paper a LVCSR system with implementation of the Czech voice assimilation phenomenon is proposed. The recognition system uses lexical trees and a bigram language model. The first part of this article is focused on voice assimilation phenomenon description, triphone lexical tree construction, and voice assimilation impact on LVCSR system performance. The second part outlines lexical tree ...