Lexical Collocation Analysis

Author : Pascual Cantos-Gómez,Moisés Almela-Sánchez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319925820

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Lexical Collocation Analysis by Pascual Cantos-Gómez,Moisés Almela-Sánchez Pdf

This book re-examines the notion of word associations, more precisely collocations. It attempts to come to a potentially more generally applicable definition of collocation and how to best extract, identify and measure collocations. The book highlights the role played by (i) automatic linguistic annotation (part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.), (ii) using semantic criteria to facilitate the identification of collocations, (iii) multi-word structured, instead of the widespread assumption of bipartite collocational structures, for capturing the intricacies of the phenomenon of syntagmatic attraction, (iv) considering collocation and valency as near neighbours in the lexis-grammar continuum and (v) the mathematical properties of statistical association measures in the automatic extraction of collocations from corpora. This book is an ideal guide to the use of statistics in collocation analysis and lexicography, as well as a practical text to the development of skills in the application of computational lexicography. Lexical Collocation Analysis: Advances and Applications begins with a proposal for integrating both collocational and valency phenomena within the overarching theoretical framework of construction grammar. Next the book makes the case for integrating advances in syntactic parsing and in collocational analysis. Chapter 3 offers an innovative look at complementing corpus data and dictionaries in the identification of specific types of collocations consisting of restricted predicate-argument combinations. This strategy complements corpus collocational data with network analysis techniques applied to dictionary entries. Chapter 4 explains the potential of collocational graphs and networks both as a visualization tool and as an analytical technique. Chapter 5 introduces MERGE (Multi-word Expressions from the Recursive Grouping of Elements), a data-driven approach to the identification and extraction of multi-word expressions from corpora. Finally the book concludes with an analysis and evaluation of factors influencing the performance of collocation extraction methods in parsed corpora.

Author : Alexander Gelbukh,Olga Kolesnikova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642287718

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Semantic Analysis of Verbal Collocations with Lexical Functions by Alexander Gelbukh,Olga Kolesnikova Pdf

This book is written for both linguists and computer scientists working in the field of artificial intelligence as well as to anyone interested in intelligent text processing. Lexical function is a concept that formalizes semantic and syntactic relations between lexical units. Collocational relation is a type of institutionalized lexical relations which holds between the base and its partner in a collocation. Knowledge of collocation is important for natural language processing because collocation comprises the restrictions on how words can be used together. The book shows how collocations can be annotated with lexical functions in a computer readable dictionary - allowing their precise semantic analysis in texts and their effective use in natural language applications including parsers, high quality machine translation, periphrasis system and computer-aided learning of lexica. The books shows how to extract collocations from corpora and annotate them with lexical functions automatically. To train algorithms, the authors created a dictionary of lexical functions containing more than 900 Spanish disambiguated and annotated examples which is a part of this book. The obtained results show that machine learning is feasible to achieve the task of automatic detection of lexical functions.

Author : Sabine Bartsch
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : G. Barnbrook,O. Mason,R. Krishnamurthy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137297242

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Collocation by G. Barnbrook,O. Mason,R. Krishnamurthy Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation.

Author : Shino Kurosaki
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781612334172

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An Analysis of the Knowledge and Use of English Collocations by French and Japanese Learners by Shino Kurosaki Pdf

The present study investigated differences on the knowledge and use of collocations between French and Japanese learners with regard to: 1) L1 influence; and 2) combinability and transparency influence. The test materials included four categories of the lexical collocations: 1) verb + noun; 2) delexicalised verb + noun; 3) adjective + noun; and 4) adverb + adjective. The two types of tasks, Multiple Choice Question Tasks and Translation Tasks, are performed, and the learner corpora are also investigated in order to examine whether the learners from different L1 backgrounds demonstrate different results. Though L1 influence by both French and Japanese learners was demonstrated, the Japanese learners showed a greater L1 influence in the [adjective ] noun] category than the French learners. The investigation also found that L1 influence does not necessarily result in accuracy of the collocations. With regard to the combinability and transparency influence, the results of the two types of tasks followed Kellerman's (1978) remark. However, some contrasted results were also identified in learner corpus investigation. Thus the combinability and transparency influence were not necessarily identified. The results of the present study have a potential to improve teaching/learning of collocations through recognizing the learners' tendencies of learning collocations.

Author : Sergi Torner Castells,Elisenda Bernal Gallen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781315455242

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Collocations and other lexical combinations in Spanish by Sergi Torner Castells,Elisenda Bernal Gallen Pdf

This edited collection presents the state of the art in research related to lexical combinations and their restrictions in Spanish from a variety of theoretical approaches, ranging from Explanatory Combinatorial Lexicology to Distributed Morphology and Generative Lexicon Theory. Section 1 offers a presentation of the main theoretical and descriptive approaches to collocation. Section 2 explores collocation from the point of view of its lexicographical representation, while Section 3 offers a pedagogical perspective. Section 4 surveys current research on collocation in Catalan, Galician and Basque. Collocations and other lexical combinations in Spanish will be of interest to students of Hispanic linguistics.

Author : Nadja Nesselhauf
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Marco Schilk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261342

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Language Processing in Advanced Learners of English by Marco Schilk Pdf

The production and processing of collocations and formulaic language is a field of growing interest in corpus linguistics and experimental psycholinguistics. In the past this fascinating field at the interface of grammar and the lexicon has been mainly studied based on English native speakers, while research focusing on second language speakers and language learners has been comparatively rare. This book proposes an integration of corpus-based and experimental methods by analysing language processing of collocation by advanced learners of English. In using corpus-derived collocational stimuli of native-like and learner-typical language use in an experimental setting, it shows how advanced German L1 learners of English process native-like collocations, L1-based interferences and non-collocating lexical combinations. This book is of interest to anyone interested in the psycholinguistic validity of collocation from a bilingual point of view, as it explores methods of tracking collocational processing of speakers working with different sets of ‘collocational preferences’.

Author : Douglas Biber,Randi Reppen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108744354

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The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics by Douglas Biber,Randi Reppen Pdf

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. The most innovative aspects of the CHECL are its emphasis on critical discussion, its explicit evaluation of the state of the art in each sub-discipline, and the inclusion of empirical case studies. While each chapter includes a broad survey of previous research, the primary focus is on a detailed description of the most important corpus-based studies in this area, with discussion of what those studies found, and why they are important. Each chapter also includes a critical discussion of the corpus-based methods employed for research in this area, as well as an explicit summary of new findings and discoveries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004361133

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Corpora and Lexis by Anonim Pdf

This collection of research articles provides state-of-the-art research in corpus linguistics on lexis and lexico-grammar, focussing on major corpus resources (both corpora and software tools), their theoretical implications and the pedagogical applications of corpus findings.

Author : Violeta Seretan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789400701342

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Syntax-Based Collocation Extraction by Violeta Seretan Pdf

Syntax-Based Collocation Extraction is the first book to offer a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the theoretical and applied work on word collocations. Backed by solid theoretical results, the computational experiments described based on data in four languages provide support for the book’s basic argument for using syntax-driven extraction as an alternative to the current cooccurrence-based extraction techniques to efficiently extract collocational data. The work described in Syntax-Based Collocation Extraction focuses on using linguistic tools for corpus-based identification of collocations. It takes advantage of recent advances in parsing to propose a novel deep syntactic analytic collocation extraction that has applicability to a range of important core tasks in Computational Linguistics. The book is useful for anyone interested in computational analysis of texts, collocation phenomena, and multi-word expressions in general.

Author : Paweł Szudarski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Gabriela Bara
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783640553860

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Differential and Generative Structure of Language by Gabriela Bara Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, Technical University of Braunschweig (Englisches Seminar), course: Teaching English Grammar and Lexis, language: English, abstract: The theory and methodology of early linguistics took the notion of structure as a key term and emphasized the idea that language needed to be organized. In the 70s, under the influence of pragmatics, language was no longer seen as an abstraction, but as a means of communication between people, and the primary purpose of language became the exchange of meaning. Since language essentially deals with naming of concepts, the importance of lexis replaced the role played by grammatical structure. The idea was that meaning is primarily carried by lexis, because focus on communication implies emphasis on lexis and decreased emphasis on structure. In this paper, I will discuss the central ideas of Saussurean structuralism, in particular the notion of differential structure, then I will present the innovation brought in linguistics by Chomsky’s generative structure, namely the universal nature of language as opposed to Sassure’s idea about the uniqueness of language, and finally, I will analyze collocations in the light of these two structuralist theories. This paper does not intend to show the differences and incompatibilities between the structural and lexical approaches, but the point of coincidence and agreement between the two, namely the way meaning is defined through difference under the exercise of choice.

Author : John Sinclair
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Computational linguistics
ISBN : UCSC:32106010388186

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Corpus, Concordance, Collocation by John Sinclair Pdf

John Sinclair charts the emergence of a new view of language and the computer technology associated with it. Developments in computational linguistics over the past ten years are outlined. There is discussion of corpus creation and exemplification of corpus use. The book goes on to spell outthe implications of these developments for an understanding of collocation.

Author : Barbara Berti
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788869771859

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Lexical collocations in bilingual dictionaries by Barbara Berti Pdf

Elusive yet intuitive at the same time, the concept of collocation has attracted the attention of different branches of linguistics for many a year, owing to the proven pervasiveness of such combinations in languages. Although a universally accepted definition of collocation has not been reached as each attempted description is inextricably related to the linguist’s standpoint, the development of a series of very workable ideas on the nature of these combinations has led to the production of worthy linguistic commodities. While English lexicography has kept pace with the development in lexicology and corpus linguistics, Italian lexicography has only recently started to look in that direction. The author investigates the treatment of lexical collocations in the major bilingual English-Italian dictionaries, looking closely at the lexicographers’ choices while keeping the end users and their heuristics in mind.