In this paper, we propose a new method for extracting bilingual collocations from a parallel corpus to provide phrasal translation memories. The method integrates statistical and linguistic information to achieve effective extraction of bilingual collocations. The linguistic information includes parts of speech, chunks, and clauses. The method involves first obtaining an extended list of Englis...

In this paper, we describe a method for automatically retrieving collocations from large text corpora. This method retrieve collocations in the following stages: 1) extracting strings of characters as units of collocations 2) extracting recurrent combinations of strings in accordance with their word order in a corpus as collocations. Through the method, various range of collocations, especially...

This paper presents the design and construction of an annotated Chinese collocation bank as the resource to support systematic research on Chinese collocations. With the help of computational tools, the bi-gram and n-gram collocations corresponding to 3,643 headwords are manually identified. Furthermore, annotations for bi-gram collocations include dependency relation, chunking relation and cla...

With the renewed interest in the field of second language learning for the knowledge of collocating words, research findings in favour of holistic processing of formulaic language could support the idea that these language units facilitate efficient language processing. This study investigated the difference between processing of a first language (L1) and a second language (L2) of congruent col...

In this paper we proposed that the neglected three words collocations (trillocation) should be emphasized in collocation study. From the point of view of colligations, more useful collocations could be covered by adding a third category. For a specific third word, it will help avoid the unnaturalness of a two words collocation. A statistic based automatic trillocation extracting system is propo...

Modernist authors such as Virginia Woolf and James Joyce greatly expanded the use of ‘free indirect discourse’, a form of third-person narration that is strongly influenced by the language of a viewpoint character. Unlike traditional approaches to analyzing characterization using common words, such as those based on Burrows (1987), the nature of free indirect discourse and the sparseness of our...

This paper deals with the relationship between weblog content and time. With the proposed temporal mutual information, we analyze the collocations in time dimension, and the interesting collocations related to special events. The temporal mutual information is employed to observe the strength of term-to-term associations over time. An event detection algorithm identifies the collocations that m...

Cohesion between components of collocations is already acknowledged measurable by means of the Web, and cohesion measurements are used for some applications and extraction of new collocations. Taking a specific cohesion criterion SCI, we performed massive evaluations of collocate cohesion in Oxford Collocations Dictionary. For three groups of modificative collocations (adjectivenoun, adverbad...

The subject of this research is the polysemous borrowed noun “credit” in Russian language and Anglo-American language. goal lies determination national-specific universal collocations with component discourse their translated equivalents XIX XXI centuries. Analysis conducted on "credit" formed accordance pattern adjective + revealed by statistical methods that calculate freq...

It is generally acknowledged within the Spanish as second language (SSL) community that collocations need to be taught and that collocation dictionaries are useful. Nevertheless, no one has carried out yet any experimental study to investigate what kind of collocation information must be included into a dictionary and how to encode it for a user to take full advantage of it. We describe the res...