Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems require access to collocational information to help determine lexical choices constrained both by syntactic and semantic concerns. Constructing linguistic resources to support these decisions can be time-consuming whereas, if the information is extracted automatically, data sparsity limits the variety of the output. This paper reports on a method for ex...

Collocational competence is of critical importance to EFL learners’ language proficiency. Due limited research on L1 influence L2 development receptive and productive knowledge adjective + noun collocations, especially in the context Vietnam, this study an attempt address these gaps by investigating whether Vietnamese learners could recognize use congruent English collocations more accurately t...

This paper discusses the lexicographical concept of lexical functions (Mel' cuk and Zolkovsky, 1984) and their potential exploitation in the development of a machine translation lexicon designed to handle collocations. We show how lexical functions can be thought to reeect crosslinguistic meaning concepts for collocational structures and their translational equivalents, and therefore suggest th...

Collocational deficiency is a pervasive phenomenon in learner English. Language learners often fail to choose the correct combination of two or more words due to their unawareness of collocational properties in vocabulary. They are apt to adopt lexical simplification strategies such as using a synonymous or Ll-influenced expression. This paper presents a corpus-based study on the collocational ...

The purpose of the current study was to explore if and how additional-language learners may show changes in phraseological patterns over course a stay target-language environment. In particular, we focused on noun+adjective combinations produced by group speakers French at three points time, spanning 21 months including an academic year France. We extracted each combination from longitudinal co...