Much interest has recently been directed toward the knowledge of collocations in the field of second language learning since they have been asserted to improve fluency. The current study was intended to examine the effect of verbal and visuospatial working memory spans on the processing of collocations using a Self-Pace Reading Task (SPRT) and relevant working memory tasks. To this end, partici...

Statistical-based collocation extraction approaches suffer from (1) low precision rate because high co-occurrence bi-grams may be syntactically unrelated and are thus not true collocations; (2) low recall rate because some true collocations with low occurrences cannot be identified successfully by statistical-based models. To integrate both syntactic rules as well as semantic knowledge into a s...

This paper provides a specification of requirements for collocation extraction systems, taking as an example the extraction of noun + verb collocations from German texts. A hybrid approach to the extraction of habitual collocations and idioms is presented, aiming at a detailed description of collocations and their morphosyntax for natural language generation systems as well as to support learne...

In this paper we describe some interactions between collocations and automatic text categorization. First, we use the differents categories to extract strings (through collocations agglutinations) related to each categorie. Then we use these categories-specific strings to improve categorization. MOTS-CLÉS : collocations, catégorisation automatique de textes.

The Word Expert Parser is a computer program that analyzes fragments of natural language text in order to extract their meaning in context. The construction of the program has led to the development of a linguistic theory based on notions orthogonal to those traditionally found at the heart of such theories. Word Expert Parsing explains the understanding of textual fragments containing highly i...

The lexical items like and well can serve as discourse markers (DMs), but can also play numerous other roles, such as verb or adverb. Identifying the occurrences that function as DMs is an important step for language understanding by computers. In this study, automatic classifiers using lexical, prosodic/positional and sociolinguistic features are trained over transcribed dialogues, manually an...

Abstract The study deals with the lexical meaning of lexemes female teacher, teacher (male and a generic lexeme), which might be in Slovak influenced by context discourse as well attitudes gender stereotypes interlocutors. In pragmatic research, author focuses on semantic indeterminacy an implicit component determined socialization Analysis , their collocations adjectives typical crazy burned o...