We present an experiment in extracting collocations from the FrameNet corpus, specifically, support verbs such as direct in Environmentalists directed strong criticism at world leaders. Support verbs do not contribute meaning of their own and the meaning of the construction is provided by the noun; the recognition of support verbs is thus useful in text understanding. Having access to a list of...

In this paper , we show t h a t Reileralion and Collocation re la t ions as in t roduced I)y I la l l iday and l lasan may func t ion as lexieally I)iased discourse s t ruc tu re re la t ions and t h a t these re la t ions are well represented by sequences of Mel '&flds Lexical Funclions (Ll,'s). We propose to use Lie sequences for tl,e final de te rminat ion and real izat ion of discourse o rg...

This study aims to determine the lexical aspects contained in four song lyrics album "Selamat Ulang Tahun" by Nadin Amizah. used descriptive qualitative method. The data sources for this research are Amizah which consists of songs “Beranjak Dewasa”, “Sorak Sorai”, “Bertaut”, and “Taruh”. words, phrases, clauses, sentences from Data collection techniques documentation note-taking techniques. ana...

A few years ago a reading method called “word-focused extensive reading” was proposed for adults learning the fine details of word usage (Cheng 1998a, 1998b, 1998c). In this mode of reading the computer retrieved from a large corpus and displayed the word in question in a sentence. In reading similar sentences the reader would hopefully gain the knowledge of the word usage. That is the idea of ...

This article discusses the treatment of collocations in the context of a long-term project on the development of multilingual NLP tools. Besides “classical” two-word collocations, we will focus on the case of complex collocations (3 words or more) for which a recursive design is presented in the form of collocation of collocations. Although comparatively less numerous than two-word collocations...

In this paper, we propose a phrase segmentation model for the phrase-based statistical machine translation. We observed that good translation candidates generated by a conventional phrase-based SMT decoder have lexical cohesion and show more uniform translation for each phrase segment. Based on the observation, we propose a novel phrase segmentation model using collocation between two adjacent ...

Collocation and colligation are two closely related concepts associated with the distributional properties of linguistic items in actual language use. Specifically, collocation and colligation refer to the likelihood of co-occurrence of (two or more) lexical items and grammatical categories, respectively. Both terms have been attributed to J. R. Firth (1957: 194–195; 1968: 181–183; see Östman a...

the present paper aims to examine the role of frequency lexicon in assessing lexical proficiency of persian learners. addressing the frequency distribution pattern of persian words, the research which is conducted in corpus-based method studies the relationship between words and lexical proficiency as well as derives the frequency lexicon from persian corpus. to do so, formal and colloquial per...