This study investigates relationships between global oral proficiency ratings and measures of grammatical competence in the acquisition of Korean as a second language. Data were collected on the linguistic abilities of learners’ at 1+ to 4 on the ILR scale, focusing on perception and production in phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis and collocation. The results show that (i) most of the tasks ...

This paper aims to present the methodology and guidelines for annotation in CKIP Chinese Treebank. Under the framework of the Information-based Case grammar (ICG), a lexical feature-based grammar formalism, which stipulates each lexical item containing both syntactic and semantic information, the potential phrasal heads of input are located and the semantic relations between words are also iden...

We introduce a method for learning to find the representative syntax-based context of a given collocation/phrase. In our approach, grammatical patterns are extracted for query terms aimed at accelerating lexicographers’ and language learners’ navigation through the word usage and learning process. The method involves automatically lemmatizing, part-of-speech tagging and shallowly parsing the se...

In the ACRONYM Project, we have taken the Firthian view (e.g. Firth 1957) that context is part of the meaning of the word, and measured similarity of meaning between words through second-order collocation. Using large-scale, free text corpora of UK journalism, we have generated collocational data for all words except for highfrequency grammatical words, and have found that semantically related ...

This paper is concerned with the interaction between word sense disambiguation and the interpretation of noun compounds (NCs) in English. We develop techniques for disambiguating word sense specifically in NCs, and then investigate whether word sense information can aid in the semantic relation interpretation of NCs. To disambiguate word sense, we combine the one sense per collocation heuristic...

This paper discusses the implementation of a knowledge-rich approach to automatic acquisition of grammatical information. Our study is based on Word Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff and Tudgell 2002). The original claims of WSE are two folded: that linguistic generalizations can be automatically extracted from a corpus with simple collocation information provided that the corpus is large enough; and t...

one of the most important and brilliant aspects in each language is the collocation that finally add up to lexical coherence . coming together in semantics considers as one of the semantic relationships at lexical level that appears at all languages , and doesnt specialize for a certain language . mean while .the study of pre-islamic period poem about coming together is a significant affair . t...

abstractthe present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate iranian efl learners' writing ability. for this study, 84 iranian learners, studying english as a foreign language in bayan institute, iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control ...

This study examined how Vietnamese advanced language learners used and perceived the effectiveness of Oxford online collocation dictionary as a supportive tool in their L2 writing. Eighty-one English major students were asked to do writing task encouraged use this search for collocations that they want. Their look-up while doing was observed by using recording sheets. Immediately after completi...