The present work is a pilot study of English lexical collocations in written productions by advanced Italian students of English. The aim is to describe errors made by learners in the production of word combinations. First a working definition of lexical collocation will be given in order to identify those word combinations that will be taken into consideration. Then, after introducing the data...

Abs t rac t . Collocational analysis is the basis of many s tud ies on lexical acquis i t ion . Collocations are extracted from corpora using more or less shallow processing techniques, that span from purely statistical methods to partial parsers. Our point is that, despite one of tile objectives of collocational analysis is to acquire high-coverage lexical data at low human cost, this is often...

Research in Construction Grammar assumes no strict separation between syntax and the lexicon. However, recent work by Goldberg (1995, 2006) shows that there is indeed a separation between lexical entries and grammatical constructions, including constraints regulating the fusion of grammatical constructions with verbs. This paper argues that Goldberg’s characterization of the interactions betwee...

One of the main problems for applied natural language processing is gaps in the lexicon, including missing words and word senses, and inadequate descriptions of word use in context. Traditional lexicography has similar concerns. The availability of large, on-line text corpora provides a straightforward tool for enlarging the stock of words included in a lexicon. The identification of additional...

This study investigates the often subtle and at times blatant presence of misogynistic language in our daily lives. queried News on Web (NOW) corpus to conduct an appraisal collocational behavior lemmas woman man. Furthermore, by using network graphs, we expand analysis collocations beyond traditional approaches which helped provide lexical evidence stereotypical constructions. work also intend...

In this paper we address the organization and use of the lexicon giving special consideration to how the salience of certain aspects of abstract semantic structure may be expressed. We propose an organization of the lexicon and its interaction with grammar and knowledge that makes extensive use of lexical funct ions from the Meaning-Text-Theory of Mel'~uk. We integrate this approach with the ar...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the validity of measuring grammatical diversity with a specifically designed Lexical Diversity Assessment Tool (LDAT). A secondary objective is to use LDAT to determine if the level of difficulty assigned to English as a Second Language (ESL) texts corresponds to increases in grammatical, lexical, and temporal diversity. Other methods of lexical diversit...

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...

This paper presents a statistical decision procedure for lexical ambiguity resolution. The algorithm exploits both local syntactic patterns and more distant collocational evidence, generating an efficient, effective, and highly perspicuous recipe for resolving a given ambiguity. By identifying and utilizing only the single best disambiguating evidence in a target context, the algorithm avoids t...

This tutorial presents a corpus-driven, pattern-based empirical approach to meaning representation and computation. Patterns in text are everywhere, but techniques for identifying and processing them are still rudimentary. Patterns are not merely syntactic but syntagmatic: each pattern identifies a lexico-semantic clause structure consisting of a predicator (verb or predicative adjective) toget...