We design a three-layered collocation extraction tool by integrating syntactic and semantic knowledge and apply it in China English studies. The tool first extracts peripheral collocations in the frequency layer from dependency triples, then extracts semi-peripheral collocations in the syntactic layer by association measures, and last extracts core collocations in the semantic layer with a simi...

collocations are one of the areas generally considered problematic for efl learners. iranian learners of english like other efl learners face various problems in producing oral collocations.  an analysis of learners' spoken interlanguage both indicates the scope of the problem and the necessity to spend more time and energy by learners on mastering collocations. the present study specifically f...

Collocations are one of the areas generally considered problematic for EFL learners. Iranian learners of English like other EFL learners face various problems in producing oral collocations.  An analysis of learners' spoken interlanguage both indicates the scope of the problem and the necessity to spend more time and energy by learners on mastering collocations. The present study specifically f...

This paper proposes a new method to find correspondences of uninterrupted collocations from Japanese-English bilingual corpora without sentence-to-sentence alignment. Uninterrupted collocations in English such as “once again”, “give up”, or “gross national product” handled as a single word or a compound word in Japanese, can be automatically extracted with corresponding Japanese words using wor...

When learning English words, it is useful to also learn the words they often occur with .This combination of words that work together is known under the name of collocation. Learning collocations is an important part of acquiring the vocabulary of a language. A collocation refers to clusters of words that often go together throughout written and spoken English and form a common expression. An u...

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...

This paper describes the NMSU-Pitt-UNCA word-sense disambiguation system participating in the Senseval-3 English lexical sample task. The focus of the work is on using semantic class-based collocations to augment traditional word-based collocations. Three separate sources of word relatedness are used for these collocations: 1) WordNet hypernym relations; 2) cluster-based word similarity classes...