This study points out that Yòu ( ) and Hái ( ✁ ) have their own prominent semantic features and syntactic patterns compared with each other. The differences reflect in the combination with verbs. Hái ( ✁ ) has absolute superiority in collocation with V+Bu (✂)+V, which tends to express [durative]. Yòu ( ) has advantages in collocations with V+Le ( ✄ )+V and derogatory verbs. Yòu ( )+V+Le ( ✄ )+V...

We present empirical data showing that the relative frequency with which a verb normally appears in a syntactic construction predicts young children’s ability to remember and repeat sentences instantiating that construction. Children aged 2;10–5;8 years were asked to repeat grammatical and ungrammatical sentential complement sentences (e.g., ‘I think+ S’). The sentences contained complement-tak...

Compound noun has the similar structure to a simple sentence, for example, predicate-argument structure in many cases, as well as it represents compound meaning with several nouns combined. In this paper, we suggest a new method to analyze Korean noun phrases with posessive and compound nouns by using the statistical model based on verb-noun co-occurrence relations and word collocations between...

This paper provides an insight into ongoing research focusing on the exploitation of data from learner corpus in order to enhance the performance of an automatic tool aimed at the correction of collocation errors of L2 Spanish speakers. The procedure adopted for collocation annotation is described together with the main difficulties involved in the annotation task, such as the problem of distin...

The first annotated corpus of historical and modern Spanish – the 100,000,000 word Corpus del Español – is now online at http://www.corpusdelespanol.org. Unlike other corpora of historical Spanish, the “Corpus del Español” allows searches by 35 grammatical categories, 20,000 lemmata, and 30,000 groups of synonyms and antonyms, in addition to searches by etymology, frequency, and by user-defined...

The real difficulty in development of practical NLP systems comes from the fact that we do not have effective means for gathering "knowledge". In this paper, we propose an algorithm which acquires automatically knowledge of semantic collocations among "words" from sample corpora. The algorithm proposed in this paper tries to discover semantic collocations which will be useful for disambiguating...

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...

The problem of automatic text segmentation is subcategorized into two different problems: thematic segmentation into rather large topically selfcontained sections and splitting into paragraphs, i.e., lexico-grammatical segmentation of lower level. In this paper we consider the latter problem. We propose a method of reasonably splitting text into paragraph based on a text cohesion measure. Speci...

This paper deals with the relationship between weblog content and time. With the proposed temporal mutual information, we analyze the collocations in time dimension, and the interesting collocations related to special events. The temporal mutual information is employed to observe the strength of term-to-term associations over time. An event detection algorithm identifies the collocations that m...

Cohesion between components of collocations is already acknowledged measurable by means of the Web, and cohesion measurements are used for some applications and extraction of new collocations. Taking a specific cohesion criterion SCI, we performed massive evaluations of collocate cohesion in Oxford Collocations Dictionary. For three groups of modificative collocations (adjectivenoun, adverbad...