Although the semantic analysis and the grammatical distribution are treated as separate issues in linguistic theories, there is a close interconnection between the two in that the differences in the lexical meanings are often realized at the levels both of the grammatical function and of the lexical collocation. This is the basic assumption utilized when we design and develop Knowledge Base of ...

Genuine lexical writing assistants that attempt to detect lexical errors such as miscollocations are traditionally less common in Computer Assisted Language Learning than spell and grammar checkers. However, there is empirical evidence of the importance of capturing and correcting miscollocations in the writings of language learners, and therefore an increasing number of proposals deals with th...

One of the most common lexical misuse problems in the second language context concerns near synonyms. Dictionaries and thesauri often overlook the nuances of near synonyms and make reference to near synonyms in providing definitions. The semantic differences and implications of near synonyms are not easily recognized and often fail to be acquired by L2 learners. This study addressed the distinc...

In Mandarin Chinese, lexical semantic relation of near synonyms is a widespread phenomenon, and is of great interest to many linguists. Most works deal with lexical semantic relation between lexical entries. This paper investigates the differences between Chinese near synonymous sensation verbs based on the data from “Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Modern Mandarin Chinese” (Sinica Corpus) a...

In this paper, we investigate word sense distributions in noun compounds (NCs). Our primary goal is to disambiguate the word sense of component words in NCs, based on investigation of “semantic collocation” between them. We use sense collocation and lexical substitution to build supervised and unsupervised word sense disambiguation (WSD) classifiers, and show our unsupervised learner to be supe...

In a collocation, the choice of one lexical item depends on the choice made for another. This poses a problem for simple approaches to lexicalisation in natural language generation systems. In the Meaning-Text framework, recurrent patterns of collocations have been characterised by lexical functions, which offer an elegant way of describing these relationships. Previous work has shown that usin...

Dissertation Abstract comprise words for which neither word can be substituted by a synonym or hyponym. Potential colloca-tions comprising certain adjacent part-of-speech tags are extracted from text. An online thesaurus and a lexical database of word classes are queried for synonyms and hypo nyms, respectively, for each potential collocation. These queries create potential challenger pairs, su...

Mastering lexical collocation uses in learning English as a foreign language is absolutely essential to develop students’ communicative skills and linguistic abilities. Most students, however, have problems with putting words together characteristic of “natural” native speaker-like manner during writing. Students tend use strange expressions therefore production does not sound natural carries i...

There has been little research on the acquisition of Spanish collocation, particularly concerning collocation combinations in a multilingual context. Therefore, this corpus-based study attempted to provide new insights for learning collocation. The questions are: (1) What are usage and error tendencies acquiring by learners L3 Spanish? (2) How do contrasts between learners’ prior languages (L1 ...

One of the least-understood aspects of lexical choice in Natural Language Generation is choosing between near-synonyms. Previous studies of this issue, such as Edmonds and Hirst [4], have focused on semantic differences between near-synonyms, as analysed by lexicographers. Our empirical analysis of near-synonym choice in weather forecasts, however, suggests that other factors are probably more ...