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English Department Students' Collocation Abilities
In order to discover how well English Department students' knowledge of collocations and how successful the communication strategies students used to help them supply the expected collocations, 60 subjects were involved in this study. A fill-in-the-blank
Siusana Kweldju
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Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary [PDF]
We describe a method of using statistically-collected Chinese character groups from a corpus to augment a Chinese dictionary. The method is particularly useful for extracting domain-specific and regional words not readily available in machine-readable ...
Fung, Pascale, Wu, Dekai
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Collocations are clusters of words that are acquired together and are subject to constraints in co-occurrence with their adjacent words. The inadequate acquaintance with collocations emerges into the formation of unacceptable collocations from the ...
Saliminejad Parisa, Karimkhanlooei Giti
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Investigating an open methodology for designing domain-specific language collections [PDF]
With this research and design paper, we are proposing that Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Open Access (OA) publications give increasing access to high quality online educational and research content for the development of powerful domain-specific ...
Barge, Martin +2 more
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Extracting nested collocations [PDF]
This paper provides an approach to the semi-automatic extraction of collocations from corpora using statistics. The growing availability of large textual corpora, and the increasing number of applications of collocation extraction, has given rise to various approaches on the topic.
Frantzi, Katerina T, Ananiadou, Sophia
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Effect of Persian and English colour collocations on L2 learners’ proficiency
Collocations play an important role in L2 teaching and learning. The present study investigated the effect of colour collocations in L2 learning. This study was done in 2 phases: In the first phase, the frequency of colour collocations was calculated in ...
Mahmood Hashemian
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Acehnese lexical and grammatical collocations of the North Aceh dialect
This research dealt with collocations used in the North Aceh dialect. It analyzed the part of speech categories into which collocations of the North Aceh dialect can be grouped.
Kismullah Abdul Muthalib +2 more
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Computer Corpora and the law: a new approach to the translation of legal terms [PDF]
The use of computer corpora for the analysis of legal language is not common practice; still less the use of parallel corpora for the comparison of legal terminology. The Bononia Legal Corpus project (BoLC) began two years ago, and now as the first stage
Philip, Gill
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Learning L2 Non-Congruent Collocations across Cumulative vs. Concurrent Group Dynamic Assessment Instructional Conditions [PDF]
Collocations play a crucial role in the efficiency of speaking in a second or foreign language. However, learning non-congruent collocations has always presented itself as a difficulty to foreign language learners.
Mohammad Nabi Karimi +1 more
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The Presentation and Treatment of Collocations as Secondary Guiding Elements in Dictionaries
Collocations represent an item type that is frequently presented and treated in an insufficient way in dictionaries. It is cumbersome for the user to distinguish between collocations and example sentences, and dictionaries often include no additional ...
Rufus H. Gouws
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