The texts written by language learners can be considered a type of non-canonical text. Language learners tend to make errors when writing in a second language and in this regard, can be seen to violate the canonical rules of a language. The kinds of errors that learners may make include: spelling, grammatical, vocabulary, collocation. The extent and degree to which learners make errors will dep...

Collocations such as heavy rain or make [a] decision, are combinations of two elements where one (the base) is freely chosen, while the choice of the other (collocate) is restricted, depending on the base. Collocations present difficulties even to advanced language learners, who usually struggle to find the right collocate to express a particular meaning, e.g., both heavy and strong express the...

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We present an experiment in extracting collocations from the FrameNet corpus, specifically, support verbs such as direct in Environmentalists directed strong criticism at world leaders. Support verbs do not contribute meaning of their own and the meaning of the construction is provided by the noun; the recognition of support verbs is thus useful in text understanding. Having access to a list of...

In this paper , we show t h a t Reileralion and Collocation re la t ions as in t roduced I)y I la l l iday and l lasan may func t ion as lexieally I)iased discourse s t ruc tu re re la t ions and t h a t these re la t ions are well represented by sequences of Mel '&flds Lexical Funclions (Ll,'s). We propose to use Lie sequences for tl,e final de te rminat ion and real izat ion of discourse o rg...

We demonstrate effective new methods of document ranking based on lexical cohesive relationships between query terms. The proposed methods rely solely on the lexical relationships between original query terms, and do not involve query expansion or relevance feedback. Two types of lexical cohesive relationship information between query terms are used in document ranking: short-distance collocati...

Resumen. Lexical functions formalize semantic and syntactic relations between lexical units, given that meaning of an individual word largely depends on various relations connecting it to other words in context. Collocational relation is a type of institutionalized lexical relations that holds between the base and its partner in a collocation in contrast to free word combination where both word...

Arbitrary recurrent word combinations (collocations) are a key in language learning. However, even advanced students have difficulties when using them. Efficient collocation aiding tools would be of great help. Still, existing “collocation checkers” still struggle to offer corrections to miscollocations. They attempt to correct without making any distinction between the different types of error...

Collocation and colligation are two closely related concepts associated with the distributional properties of linguistic items in actual language use. Specifically, collocation and colligation refer to the likelihood of co-occurrence of (two or more) lexical items and grammatical categories, respectively. Both terms have been attributed to J. R. Firth (1957: 194–195; 1968: 181–183; see Östman a...

One of the most common and persistent error types in second language writing is collocation errors, such as learn knowledge instead of gain or acquire knowledge, or make damage rather than cause damage. In this work-inprogress report, we propose a probabilistic model for suggesting corrections to lexical collocation errors. The probabilistic model incorporates three features: word association s...