This study intends to investigate the realizations and functional patterns of shell nouns in Applied Linguistics research articles.  To this end, fifty research articles in the field of Applied Linguistic were selected from Journal of English for Academic Purposes and journal of English for Specific Purposes published by Elsevier.  The articles were analyzed for the realizatio...

Noun-noun compound is a common type of multiword expression in English. It causes problems in natural language processing as many other kinds of MWEs. In this paper, we extract noun-noun compounds using their POS tags. Then the extracted nounnoun compounds are aligned to their Chinese translations using word alignment method. The statistical analysis of the alignments shows that English noun-no...

Previous research indicates that mental representations of word meanings are distributed along both semantic and syntactic dimensions such that nouns and verbs are relatively distinct from one another. Two experiments examined the effect of representational distance between meanings on recognition of ambiguous spoken words by comparing recognition of unambiguous words, noun-verb homonyms, and n...

This paper describes a bootstrapping method for automatically tagging noun compounds with their corresponding semantic relations. Our work takes advantage of the collocation of senses of the noun compound constituents and also word similarity. We exploit this to generate a set of noun compounds from a set of previously tagged noun compounds by replacing one constituent of each noun compound wit...

Extraction and validation of multiword expressions (MWEs) thanks to association measures is a very common method. Researchers use it for extraction of MWEs of different lengths or different syntactic structures. However, we never wonder if the association measures collected on an MWE with one particular structure (e.g. Verb-Preposition) is relevant for collecting an MWE with a different one (e....

Translating accounting documents, in general, and accounting terminology, in particular, is not a simple task, especially when the new terms keep created in pace with accounting developments. This study was carried out to find the most common and preferable ways to translate accounting terms from English into Persian. Also, an attempt was made to identify the frequently used patterns of word-fo...