The correct use of collocations is one of the most difficult tasks that the student faces when learning a second language, such that one of the goals of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is to develop programs that aim to identify collocation errors in learners’ writings and propose corrections. However, while statistical models currently used by most of these programs still manage to ...

Collocation extraction systems based on pure statistical methods suffer from two major problems. The first problem is their relatively low precision and recall rates. The second problem is their difficulty in dealing with sparse collocations. In order to improve performance, both statistical and lexicographic approaches should be considered. This paper presents a new method to extract synonymou...

Extensive knowledge of collocations is a key factor that distinguishes learners from fluent native speakers. Such knowledge is difficult to acquire simply because there is so much of it. This paper describes a system that exploits the facilities offered by digital libraries to provide a rich collocation-learning environment. The design is based on three processes that have been identified as le...

This paper describes a corpus-based contrastive study of collocation in English and Chinese. In light of the corpus-based approach to identify functionally equivalent units, the present paper attempts to identify the collocational translation equivalents of zunshou by using a parallel corpus and two comparable corpora. This study shows that more often than not, we can find in English more than ...

the link between studies in discourse analysis and corpus linguistics has created new fields of research previously unattended. one of these areas is the study of semantic prosody produced through frequent collocation of a lexical item with a collection of words. semantic prosody is the positive, negative or neutral shade of meaning which a seemingly neutral word adopts after frequent collocati...

Collocation is an often-neglected language form that foreign teachers and students should focus on to achieve competence in a target language. In this research, the researchers studied purposely facilitate both second produce correct appropriate collocations. The purposes of research were 1) study collocation error levels Bachelor Arts English Business studying at Northern Rajabhat University, ...

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 ...

Reduplication is important in language studies. Its linguistic form at the lexical level has long been explored in terms of various formalist theories. However, the linguistic function at other levels such as the discourse layer tends to be ignored. A reduplication corpus (ongoing compilation; 1687 items in total thus far) has been constructed as the baseline for an integrated approach to the i...