Lexical collocations are a fuzzy phenomenon that has not yet been satisfactorily explained by linguistic theory. At the same time, they are important both for understanding the structure of language and for many applications such as lexicography and natural language processing. Corpus-based studies of collocations as well as collocation extraction tools have been influenced by two basic views: ...

Collocation is defined as a sequence of lexical tokens which habitually co-occur. This type of information is widely used in various applications such as Information Retrieval, document indexing, machine translation, lexicography, etc. Therefore, many techniques are developed for the automatic retrieval of collocations from textual documents. These techniques use statistical measures based on a...

Collocations are always present in every reading. Reading comprehension followed by collocation mastery. The objective of this research is (1) to investigate the students’ lexical mastery (2) reading achievement (3) significant correlation between and their English Department at 5th Semester UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu. Correlational study was applied as a method. There were 30 students take...

We describe our attempts to formulate a pragmatic definition and a partial typology of the lexical category of ’collocation’ taking both lexicographical and computational aspects into consideration. This provides a suitable basis for encoding collocations in an NLP-lexicon. Further, this paper explains the principles of an operational encoding strategy which is applied to a core section of the ...

Collocation has always been an important issue in language research, especially in Chinese language researches. Chinese is an isolated language, which lacks morphological changes.Establishing a relatively complete dictionary of Chinese collocation will be a great contribution to Chinese study and research. Collocation plays a significant supporting role in many fields of NLP, such as informatio...

This paper seeks to demonstrate the importance of translation strategies as informed by Translation Studies in foreign language (FL) classroom. The current study aims map how translation, perceived Studies, can be beneficial for students’ writing skills FL It focuses on undergraduate students three French Composition classes: a control class fall 2014, second 2015, and an experimental spring 20...

Abstract The congruency effect—that is, faster and more accurate processing of congruent multiword units, has been demonstrated in multiple studies. It is still unclear, however, what its underlying mechanism how may interact with other factors. Using an acceptability judgement task, this study examined the effect immersive (Experiment 1) nonimmersive 2) L2 learners’ collocational while taking ...

Cohesion and coherence have an important role in writing essays, both those that will write or become essays. Therefore this study aims to determine the use of cohesion KKN novel Penari Village. The object research is Village by Simpleman. subject sentence which contains type approach used a qualitative approach. A presents data form sentences. design collecting data, then grouped according typ...