Natural languages are full of collocations, recurrent combinations of words that co-occur more often than expected by chance and that correspond to arbitrary word usages. Recent work in lexicography indicates that collocations are pervasive in English; apparently, they are common in all types of writing, including both technical and nontechnical genres. Several approaches have been proposed to ...

Statistical-based collocation extraction approaches suffer from (1) low precision rate because high co-occurrence bi-grams may be syntactically unrelated and are thus not true collocations; (2) low recall rate because some true collocations with low occurrences cannot be identified successfully by statistical-based models. To integrate both syntactic rules as well as semantic knowledge into a s...

The present work is a pilot study of English lexical collocations in written productions by advanced Italian students of English. The aim is to describe errors made by learners in the production of word combinations. First a working definition of lexical collocation will be given in order to identify those word combinations that will be taken into consideration. Then, after introducing the data...

Collocation has been considered a problematic area for L2 learners. Various studies have been conducted to investigate native speakers‘ (NS) and non-native speakers‘ (NNS) use of different types of collocations (e.g., Durrant and Schmitt, 2009; Laufer and Waldman, 2011).These studies have indicated that, unlike NS, NNS rely on a limited set of collocations and tend to overuse them. This raises ...

Abstract We describe tools for the extraction of collocations not only in the form of word combinations, but also of data about the morphosyntactic properties of collocation candidates. Such data are needed for a detailed lexical description of collocations, and to support both their recognition in text and the generation of collocationally acceptable text. We describe the tool architecture, re...

To date, substantial efforts have been devoted to the extraction of collocations from text corpora. However, only a few works deal with the subsequent processing of results in order for these to be successfully integrated into the NLP applications that could benefit from them (e.g., machine translation). This paper presents an accurate method for identifying translation equivalents of collocati...

to investigate the effect of massed and distributed collaborative and non-collaborative presentation on l2 learners’ comprehension and production of lexical collocations, 105 participants at takestan islamic azad university in 4 groups were assigned to four different treatment conditions (collaborative-massed; collaborative-distributed; noncollaborative-massed; and noncollaborative-distributed ...

The importance of collocations for success in language learning is widely recognized. Concordancers, originally designed for linguists, are among the most popular tools for students to obtain, organize, and study collocations derived from corpora. This paper describes the design and development of a collocation learning system that is built from Wikipedia text and provides language learners wit...

ii Introduction A construction can be defined as a form-meaning pairing in which the components cannot entirely explain the meaning of the whole. Constructional phenomena range from morphemes to argument structure, and include obvious examples like collocations (" hermetically sealed "), (idiomatic) expressions with fixed constituents (" kick the bucket "), expressions with (semi-)optional cons...

Collocations constitute an important type of syntagmatic information whose introduction into WordNets has not yet been addressed. The goal of our work is the integration of the collocational material for the field of emotion nouns encoded in the DIccionario de colocaciones del español (DICE) in terms of Lexical Functions into the Spanish part of the EuroWordNet (SpEWN). Two features of collocat...