The purpose of this review is to identify the appropriate strategies or methodologies that can help address those problems related collocational competence amongst English as a Second Language (ESL) and Foreign (EFL) learners. topic needs be explored given having would advantage language learners attain second foreign fluency. Collocational in fact reliable indicator high proficiency level. Num...

In this paper, we describe a program of research designed to explore.' how a lexical semantic theory may be exploited for extracting information from corpora suitable for use in Information Retrieval applications. Unlike with purely statistical collocational analyses, the framework of a semantic theory allows the ~ultomatic construction of predictions about semantic relationships among words ap...

This study investigates the influence of semantic incongruency on vocabulary acquisition Kurdish learners English and different factors involved in resolving such incongruency. It also examines whether level language proficiency is key facilitating learner understanding this phenomenon. To these ends, a mixed method approach that features quantitative qualitative data collection was adopted, fo...

A numerical algorithm for effective incorporation of parametric uncertainty into mathematical models is presented. The uncertain parameters are modeled as random variables, and the governing equations are treated as stochastic. The solutions, or quantities of interests, are expressed as convergent series of orthogonal polynomial expansions in terms of the input random parameters. A high-order s...

Introduction For many ESL learners, English prepositions pose a perennial problem, partly because the same lexical item -e.g., the word over -can have a variety of functions (as preposition, noun, adverb, adjective and particle (in verb+particle constructions)) and meanings, and partly because of its diversity in collocational properties. With no generalizations emerging, a common learning stra...

A text partition model is proposed to determine the boundaries of discourse structures. It is based on association of noun-noun relations and noun-verb relations defined on discourse level and sentence level. Three factors are considered: 1) repetition of words, 2) importance of words, and 3) collocational semantics. Ten texts serve as experimental objects. The applications of the results to se...

The ACRONYM Project began in April 1994, funded by the British government and industry for three years. It is a collaborative project, its partners being the University of Liverpool, FT Info (the archiving branch of the Financial Times), and the Press Association (a news agency supplying news to the regional press). The project has as its objective the development of an automated system for ide...