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 ...

Linguistics as a scientific study of human language intends to describe and explain it. However, validity of a linguistic theory is difficult to prove due to volatile nature of language as a human convention and impossibility to cover all real-life linguistic data. In spite of these problems, computational techniques and modeling can provide evidence to verify or falsify linguistic theories. As...

The theory of collocational networks adopts a textual definition of the phenomenon ofcollocation in an electronic corpus. The networks move out from a central node exploring thesignificant word associations of both base and collocate. This is done by measuring statisticalsignificance using mutual information. Working within a carefully-constructed corpus based on adiscourse comm...

This article investigates typical usage patterns of the word awe in English language and how it is related to psychology depict specific lexical representation emotions. Contextual analysis corpus data revealed inconsistencies lexicographic description awe, regarded by most dictionaries as monosemous. Using linguistic tools analysis, a functional classification experiences English-speaking cult...

This study examines whether Mapping Principles, which govern how concrete concepts in a source domain are mapped to abstract concepts in a target domain, are realized in large-scale corpus data. In particular, we propose a frequency-based collocational approach to determine mapping principles based on the most productive mapping. In addition, in contrast to the target-domain-oriented method use...

Current measures of the readability of texts are very simplistic, typically based on counts of words or syllables per sentence. A more sophisticated analysis needs to take account of the fact that the particular distributions of meanings across wordings chosen by the writer, and the consequent variations in syntactic structure, have a significant effect on readability. A step towards the requir...

The paper presents the approach we developed for the AuthorshipLink Ranking and Complete Author Clustering task at the PAN 2016 competition. Given a document collection, the task is to group documents written by the same author, so that each cluster corresponds to a different author. This task can also be viewed as one of establishing authorship links between documents. We use a combination of ...

This paper presents a wordlist-based lexical richness approach to testing distributional hypothesis for genre analysis in translation studies. In recent years, there has been continuing interest in patent translation. However, there are only a few lay their interests on comparison between native and non-native writing. The proposed approach to terms distrubution of technical words contained in ...

This paper investigates interactions between collocational properties and methods for organizing them into features for machine learning. In experiments performing an event categorization task, Wiebe et al. (1997a) found that different organizations are best for different properties. This paper presents a statistical analysis of the results across different machine learning algorithms. In the e...