this study was intended first to categorize the l2 learners in terms of their learning style preferences and second to investigate if their learning preferences are related to lexical inferencing. moreover, strategies used for lexical inferencing and text related issues of text density and parts of speech were studied to determine their moderating effects and the best predictors of lexical infe...

In this report two programs for statistical analysis of concordance lines are described. The programs have been developed for analysing the lexical context of a given word. It is shown how different parameter settings influence the outcome of collocational analysis, and how the concept of collocation can be extended to allow the extraction of lines typical for a word from a set of concordance l...

Our internal repository of words, often known as the mental lexicon, has primarily been modelled by psychologists as some kind of network. One way to probe its organisation and access mechanisms is by means of word association techniques, which have rarely been applied on Chinese. This paper reports on the design and implementation of a pilot word association test on native Hong Kong Cantonese ...

This study was intended first to categorize the L2 learners in terms of their learning style preferences and second to investigate if their learning preferences are related to lexical inferencing. Moreover, strategies used for lexical inferencing and text related issues of text density and parts of speech were studied to determine their moderating effects and the best predictors of lexical infe...

We extend a lexical knowledge-base of near-synonym differences with knowledge about their collocational behaviour. This type of knowledge is useful in the process of lexical choice between near-synonyms. We acquire collocations for the near-synonyms of interest from a corpus (only collocations with the appropriate sense and part-of-speech). For each word that collocates with a nearsynonym we us...

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...

We 1 describe our attempts to automatically extract raw material for a dictionary of German noun-verb collocations from large corpora of newspaper text. Such a dictionary should be about collocations and it should include a description of their linguistic properties, rather than listing the mere lexical cooccurrence. Since most statistical collocation nding tools do not provide other than lexic...

This article describes the Johns Hopkins University ( JHU) sense disambiguation systems that participated in seven SENSEVAL2 tasks: four supervised lexical choice systems (Basque, English, Spanish, Swedish), one unsupervised lexical choice system (Italian) and two supervised all-words systems (Czech, Estonian). The common core supervised system utilizes voting-based classifier combination over ...

Writing thesis is a process of constant interaction between the student and academic advisor, but writing correctly is a complex task for students even if they have the support of a teacher. The elaboration of the thesis document requires the implementation of a methodology and procedures, which constitute the elements of the format and structure in the thesis. This work shows an intelligent tu...

Guiding students on writing is a hard and time consuming chore for advisors, since requires several iterations before achieving an acceptable level. Normally, when advising students close to graduation, most questions are about the structure of the thesis project. Issues such as the correct wording or abuse of certain terms within a title, problem statement, objectives and justification become ...