Collocation Retrieval From Corpora

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3884766279

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Collocation Retrieval from Corpora by Anonim Pdf

Corpora are unprecedented resources in the analysis of language and have become an integral part of research into the process of language acquisition. In this work, an insight is given into the wide field of corpus-based research and the application of corpora in various domains such as the design of language teaching materials, dictionary work and the study of translation. It will be demonstrated how collocations of English verbs of thinking can be extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC) using SARA, a program developed especially for accessing this corpus.

Author : Paweł Szudarski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108998727

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Collocations, Corpora and Language Learning by Paweł Szudarski Pdf

This Element provides a systematic overview and synthesis of corpus-based research into collocations focusing on the learning and use of collocations by second language (L2) users. Underlining the importance of collocation as a key notion within the field of corpus linguistics, the text offers a state-of-the-art account of the main findings related to the applications of corpora and corpus-based measures for defining, identifying and analysing collocations as related to second language acquisition. Emphasising the quality of L2 collocation research, the Element illustrates key methodological issues to be considered when conducting this type of corpus analysis. It also discusses examples of pertinent research questions and points to representative studies treated as models of good practice. Aiming at researchers both new and experienced, the Element also points to avenues for future work and shows the relevance of corpus-based analysis for improving the process of learning and teaching of L2 collocations.

Author : Haoda Feng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000046953

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Form, Meaning and Function in Collocation by Haoda Feng Pdf

The issue of differences between translational language and native-speaker language has become a topic of increasing interest in linguistics and Translation Studies (TS). One of the primary tasks in this research area is to employ a corpus approach and analyse collocations with authentic language data by comparing comparable corpora consisting of translated and native-speaker texts. Collocation in linguistics and TS refers to the relationship of co-occurrence between lexical items. The book shows that examining the use of collocations constitutes an integral part in assessing the naturalness of second language (L2) use, and therefore can be a valid measure to make a distinction between translational language and native-speaker language. Nevertheless, the role of collocation has not been given enough attention or discussed systematically in TS and, to date, there are hardly any translation theorists who have clarified the mechanism of collocation in TS, by which translators acquire receptive and productive knowledge of collocations in their L2. In addition, previous research in this area is largely confined to Indo-European languages, resulting in a lack of empirical evidence involving Asian languages. This book therefore attempts to bridge the gap in the literature and constitute an integral part in the research area.

Author : Armstrong-Warwick Armstrong
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262510820

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Using Large Corpora by Armstrong-Warwick Armstrong Pdf

Using Large Corpora identifies new data-oriented methods for organizing and analyzing large corpora and describes the potential results that the use of large corpora offers. Today, large corpora consisting of hundreds of millions or even billions of words, along with new empirical and statistical methods for organizing and analyzing these data, promise new insights into the use of language. Already, the data extracted from these large corpora reveal that language use is more flexible and complex than most rule-based systems have tried to account for, providing a basis for progress in the performance of Natural Language Processing systems. Using Large Corpora identifies these new data-oriented methods and describes the potential results that the use of large corpora offers. The research described shows that the new methods may offer solutions to key issues of acquisition (automatically identifying and coding information), coverage (accounting for all of the phenomena in a given domain), robustness (accommodating real data that may be corrupt or not accounted for in the model), and extensibility (applying the model and data to a new domain, text, or problem). There are chapters on lexical issues, issues in syntax, and translation topics, as well discussions of the statistics-based vs. rule-based debate. ACL-MIT Series in Natural Language Processing.

Author : Ruslan Mitkov,Johanna Monti,Gloria Corpas Pastor,Violeta Seretan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264206

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Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology by Ruslan Mitkov,Johanna Monti,Gloria Corpas Pastor,Violeta Seretan Pdf

The correct interpretation of Multiword Units (MWUs) is crucial to many applications in Natural Language Processing but is a challenging and complex task. In recent years, the computational treatment of MWUs has received considerable attention but there is much more to be done before we can claim that NLP and Machine Translation (MT) systems process MWUs successfully. This volume provides a general overview of the field with particular reference to Machine Translation and Translation Technology and focuses on languages such as English, Basque, French, Romanian, German, Dutch and Croatian, among others. The chapters of the volume illustrate a variety of topics that address this challenge, such as the use of rule-based approaches, compound splitting techniques, MWU identification methodologies in multilingual applications, and MWU alignment issues.

Author : Howard Hao-Jan Chen,Keiko Mochizuki,Hongyin Tao
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811957314

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Learner Corpora: Construction and Explorations in Chinese and Related Languages by Howard Hao-Jan Chen,Keiko Mochizuki,Hongyin Tao Pdf

This edited book reflects the state of the art in learner corpus and related approaches to Chinese as a second language (CSL). CSL as a field has flourished in the past few decades due to the increasingly important role of the Chinese language at the world stage, yet studies of Chinese as a second language based on learner corpora have been less well developed due to the limited availability of data and lack of theoretical insights. This book represents the latest research in this area by 1) assembling a large group of active researchers from multiple international research communities (USA, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Taiwan, and France); 2) discussing the latest resources and technologies in Chinese and other Asian languages learner corpora and corpus building; 3) basing Chinese as a second language studies on data from learners of Chinese with a wide range of first language backgrounds (English, Japanese, Korean, French, among others); and 4) integrating corpus methods with a wide range of related methods in allied fields—language acquisition, usage-based linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics. This comprehensive collection is indispensable for anyone who is interested in corpus approaches to CSL and Chinese applied language studies in general.

Author : Haiyan Men
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811058226

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Vocabulary Increase and Collocation Learning by Haiyan Men Pdf

This book highlights research that expands on our knowledge of second- language collocation acquisition. It presents original findings based on the largest collocation database to date, encompassing over 8,000 collocations: verb + noun, adjective + noun, and noun + noun. These collocations, collected from a one-million-learner corpus, were not confined to English as a foreign language (EFL) learners at a particular proficiency level, but also included learners at three levels. As such, the book provides a panoramic view regarding L2 collocation acquisition, not only in terms of learners’ acquisition of different types of collocations, but in terms of the developmental patterns in L2 collocation learning. One major discovery is that there is a collocation lag as learners’ proficiency levels rise, which is associated with vocabulary increase, in particular semantic domains—a remarkable insight for second-language acquisition researchers, English teachers and EFL learners alike. The findings reported shed new light on how collocations are acquired by EFL learners, offering guidance on how they can best be taught. In closing, the book discusses pedagogical aspects that arise from considering how learners can be helped with collocation learning.

Author : Gloria Corpas Pastor,Ruslan Mitkov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030301354

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Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology by Gloria Corpas Pastor,Ruslan Mitkov Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology, Europhras 2019, held in Malaga, Spain, in September 2019. The 31 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers in this volume cover a number of topics including general corpus-based approaches to phraseology, phraseology in translation and cross-linguistic studies, phraseology in language teaching and learning, phraseology in specialized languages, phraseology in lexicography, cognitive approaches to phraseology, the computational treatment of multiword expressions, and the development, annotation, and exploitation of corpora for phraseological studies.

Author : Michael Oakes
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474471381

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Statistics for Corpus Linguistics by Michael Oakes Pdf

This book in the Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics series is a comprehensive introduction to the statistics currently used in corpus linguistics. Statistical techniques and corpus applications - whether oriented towards linguistics or language engineering - often go hand in glove, and corpus linguists have used an increasingly wide variety of statistics, drawing on techniques developed in a great many fields. This is the first one-volume introduction to the subject.

Author : Nadja Nesselhauf
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027222851

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Collocations in a Learner Corpus by Nadja Nesselhauf Pdf

Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated. On the basis of a learner corpus, idiosyncratic collocation use by learners is uncovered, the building material of learner collocations examined, and the factors that contribute to the difficulty of certain groups of collocations identified. An extensive discussion of the implications of the results for the foreign language classroom is also presented, and the contentious issue of the relation of corpus linguistic research and language teaching is thus extended to learner corpus analysis.

Author : Chunyan Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315473710

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Patterns and Meanings of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner Corpora by Chunyan Wang Pdf

Intensification plays a major role in spoken and written interaction, enabling the writer or speaker to express different levels of commitment. This book explores the patterns and meanings of intensifiers in Chinese learner English by ways of comparison with native English. The study is conducted within the theoretical framework of Firthian contextual theory of meaning, Sinclairian model of Extended Units of Meaning (EUM) and Hunston's pattern grammar. The method of contrastive inter-language analysis (CIA) is adopted and the intensifier collocations in learner English and native English are explored by means of quantitative and qualitative analyses of corpora data. This book is the first attempt to investigate the patterning and meaning features of intensifiers systematically with the corpora data in Chinese learner English. Readers will obtain a relatively complete picture of how Chinese learners use intensifiers to realize their attitudinal meanings.

Author : Irene Doval,M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262844

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Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies by Irene Doval,M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto Pdf

This volume assesses the state of the art of parallel corpus research as a whole, reporting on advances in both recent developments of parallel corpora – with some particular references to comparable corpora as well– and in ways of exploiting them for a variety of purposes. The first part of the book is devoted to new roles that parallel corpora can and should assume in translation studies and in contrastive linguistics, to the usefulness and usability of parallel corpora, and to advances in parallel corpus alignment, annotation and retrieval. There follows an up-to-date presentation of a number of parallel corpus projects currently being carried out in Europe, some of them multimodal, with certain chapters illustrating case studies developed on the basis of the corpora at hand. In most of these chapters, attention is paid to specific technical issues of corpus building. The third part of the book reflects on specific applications and on the creation of bilingual resources from parallel corpora. This volume will be welcomed by scholars, postgraduate and PhD students in the fields of contrastive linguistics, translation studies, lexicography, language teaching and learning, machine translation, and natural language processing.

Author : Sabine Bartsch
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Collocation (Linguistics)
ISBN : 3823358936

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Structural and Functional Properties of Collocations in English by Sabine Bartsch Pdf

Author : Stella Markantonatou ,Carlos Ramisch , Agata Savary , Veronika Vincze
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101238

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Multiword expressions at length and in depth by Stella Markantonatou ,Carlos Ramisch , Agata Savary , Veronika Vincze Pdf

The annual workshop on multiword expressions takes place since 2001 in conjunction with major computational linguistics conferences and attracts the attention of an ever-growing community working on a variety of languages, linguistic phenomena and related computational processing issues. MWE 2017 took place in Valencia, Spain, and represented a vibrant panorama of the current research landscape on the computational treatment of multiword expressions, featuring many high-quality submissions. Furthermore, MWE 2017 included the first shared task on multilingual identification of verbal multiword expressions. The shared task, with extended communal work, has developed important multilingual resources and mobilised several research groups in computational linguistics worldwide. This book contains extended versions of selected papers from the workshop. Authors worked hard to include detailed explanations, broader and deeper analyses, and new exciting results, which were thoroughly reviewed by an internationally renowned committee. We hope that this distinctly joint effort will provide a meaningful and useful snapshot of the multilingual state of the art in multiword expressions modelling and processing, and will be a point point of reference for future work.

Author : Eric Friginal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317302865

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Corpus Linguistics for English Teachers by Eric Friginal Pdf

Corpus Linguistics for English Teachers: New Tools, Online Resources, and Classroom Activities describes Corpus Linguistics (CL) and its many relevant, creative, and engaging applications to language teaching and learning for teachers and practitioners in TESOL and ESL/EFL, and graduate students in applied linguistics. English language teachers, both novice and experienced, can benefit from the list of new tools, sample lessons, and resources as well as the introduction of topics and themes that connect CL constructs to established theories in language teaching and second language acquisition. Key topics discussed include: • CL and the teaching of English vocabulary, grammar, and spoken-written academic discourse; • new tools, online resources, and classroom activities; and • focus on the "English teacher as a corpus-based researcher." With ready-to-use teaching vignettes, tips and step-by-step guides, case studies with practitioner interviews, and discussion of corpora and corpus tools, Corpus Linguistics for English Teachers is a thoughtfully designed and skillfully executed resource, bridging theory with practice for anyone looking to understand and apply corpus-based tools dynamically in the language learning classroom.