Despite the big amount of general language dictionaries in electronic form, those coming from specialised areas are still “under construction”. There are two main reasons for this: firstly, the need for these dictionaries was/is less essential than the need for general language dictionaries, since these were/are aiming mainly to specialists, and secondly many specialised areas are changing over...

This paper proposes a bidirctional hierarchical clustering algorithm for simultaneously clustering words of different parts of speech based on collocations. The algorithm is composed of cycles of two kinds of alternate clustering processes. We construct an objective function based on Minimum Description Length. To. partly solve the problem caused by sparse data two concepts of collocational deg...

The goal of this paper is to test productive collocational competence German as a foreign language students at the University Debrecen. aims analyze compensational strategies that are used by in their texts. In first part we take look terms collocation and second show results written test.

The paper aims at serving two goals. Firstly, attention will be drawn to a class of collocations that, to our knowledge at least, has gone unnoticed so far. Secondly, it will be argued that brute force techniques as they are employed by certain automated collocation search strategies using a quantitative technique plus a mechanism to filter out unwanted combinations is a guaranteed way to miss ...

This paper proposes a new disambiguation method for Japanese text input. This method evaluates candidate sentences by measuring the number of Word Co-occurrence Patterns (WCP) included in the candidate sentences. An automatic WCP extraction method is also developed. An extraction experiment using the example sentences from dictionaries confirms that WCP can be collected automaticMly with an acc...

Collocations whose semantic content is not or only partially composed from the semantic content of their parts are often viewed as problematic for generation. In this paper a tactical generator combining FUF as the generation engine and HPSG as the grammar framework is presented. It is shown, that the lexicon driven approach to syntactic and semantic processing is well-suited for the generation...

Abstract The knowledge of medium-strength and field-specific collocations is a prerequisite for sounding native-like as such an essential skill to have future translators. While students are usually familiar with the use idioms fixed expressions, they may struggle recognizing also producing collocations, especially ones do not encounter enough frequency. They tend overuse certain common word co...