Assessing the contribution of shallow and deep knowledge sources for word sense disambiguation
, 2010 Corpus-based techniques have proved to be very beneficial in the development of efficient and accurate approaches to word sense disambiguation (WSD) despite the fact that they generally represent relatively shallow knowledge.
C. Fellbaum +10 more
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Reading Collocations in an L2: Do Collocation Processing Benefits Extend to Non-Adjacent Collocations? [PDF]
Applied Linguistics, 2017 Various studies have consistently shown that collocations are processed faster than matched control phrases, both in L1 and in L2. Most of these studies focused on adjacent collocations (e.g., provide information). However, research in corpus linguistics normally uses a span to identify collocations (e.g., ± 4 words), and these non-adjacent ...
Schmitt, Norbert, Vilkait?, Laura
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Yemeni medicine students’ competence in medical English collocations
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)This article focuses on Yemeni medicine students’ competence in medical English collocations and the potential challenges impeding their competence in medical English collocations.
Abdullah Al-Eryani +2 more
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Mind the gap: Towards determining which collocations to teach
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019 Collocations form part of formulaic language use that is considered by many scholars as central to communication (Henriksen 2013; Wray 2002). Today, most scholars agree that teaching collocations to second and/or foreign language users (henceforth “L2 ...
Nizonkiza, Déogratias +1 more
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“Drugs, traffic, and many other dirty interests”: metaphor and the language learner [PDF]
, 2006 Research into metaphor in foreign language teaching has primarily focused on the comprehension process, with little if any attention being paid to its effect on students' spoken and written production.
Philip, Gill
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Review of software applications for deriving collocations [PDF]
, 2006 The field of collocation extraction has enjoyed considerable growth and vitality from the 1990s onwards. Our research uncovered a multitude of software programs that can derive collocations from textual data, but also introduced the following question ...
Anagnostou, N.K., Weir, G.R.S.
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Intersections and differentiations: a corpus-assisted discourse study of gender representations in the British press before, during and after the London Olympics 2012 [PDF]
, 2017 This study examines the impact of a global sports event on gender representations in media reporting. Whereas previous research on gender, sport and media has been mainly concerned with sports events in the North American or Australian context, this ...
Hunt, Sally, Jaworska, Sylvia
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Peptide Sequencing With Single Acid Resolution Using a Sub‐Nanometer Diameter Pore
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.To sequence a single molecule of Aβ1−42–sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), the aggregate is forced through a sub‐nanopore 0.4 nm in diameter spanning a 4.0 nm thick membrane. The figure is a visual molecular dynamics (VMD) snapshot depicting the translocation of Aβ1−42–SDS through the pore; only the peptide, the SDS, the Na+ (yellow/green) and Cl− (cyan ...
Apurba Paul +8 more
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Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English [PDF]
, 2012 The paper discusses metapragmatic assessment of verbal irony by speakers of Russian and American English. The research combines ideas from metapragmatics, folk linguistics and corpus linguistics. Empirical data are drawn from the Russian National Corpus (
Shilikhina, Ksenia
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Lost in Collocation: When Arabic Collocation Dictionaries Lack Collocations
English Language and Literature Studies, 2015 Arabic has always been in bad need of collocation dictionaries. However, the only two recent English/Arabic & Arabic/English dictionaries that emerged, Dar El-Ilm’s Dictionary of Collocations (DEDC) and Al-Hafiz Arabic Collocations Dictionary (AACD) suffer from serious problems.
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