Introduction Importance of collocation in efficient language learning is well recognized in the domain of second language education. In recent years investigations in brain science shows that retrieving from mental lexicon words acquired in conventional text-based learning is significantly slower on the scene of actual setting than those obtained in situationbased learning[1]. This paper adopts...

Lexical unit is a word or collocation. Extracting lexical knowledge is an essential and difficult task in NLP. The methods of extracting of lexical units are discussed. We present a method for the identification of lexical boundaries. The problem of necessity of large corpora for training is discussed. The advantage of identification of lexical boundaries within a text over traditional window m...

The application of statistical approaches to problems in natural language processing generally requires large (1,000,000÷ words) corpora to produce useful results. In this paper we show that a well-known statistical technique, the t test, can be applied to smaller corpora than was previously thought possible, by relying on semantic features rather than lexical items in a corpus of limited domai...

The GE NLTooLsET aims at extracting and deriving useful information from text using a knowledge-based , domain-independent core of text processing tools, and customizing the existing programs to each new task . The program achieves this transportability by using a core knowledge base and lexicon that adapts easil y to new applications, along with a flexible text processing strategy that is tole...

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...

This paper reports results from a corpus-based study that explored the frequency of words in the abstracts of applied linguistics journal articles. The abstracts of major articles in leading applied linguists journals, published since 2005 up to November 2001 were analyzed using software modules from the Compleat Lexical Tutor. The output includes a list of the most frequent content words, list...

In this paper, we show that accessibility of syntactic information eases collocation extraction from corpora, and supports identi cation of lexical and structural restrictions related to collocations. For collocation identi cation we use a corpus that is automatically annotated applying a part-of-speech tagger and a phrase chunker.