Electronic corpora have been used in lexicography and the domain of language learning for more than two decades (cf. Braun et al. 2006, Sinclair 1991). Traditionally, computer platforms exploiting these corpora were based on concordances that present a word in its different contexts. However, concordances hit their limits for very large corpora where the result sets are generally too large for ...

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...