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Mohamed Achraf Ben Mohamed, Mounir Zrigui, Mohsen Maraoui
— The following study presents a collocation extraction approach based on clustering technique. This study uses a combination of several classical measures which cover all aspects of a given corpus. It suggests separating bigrams found in the corpus in several disjoint groups according to the probability of presence of…
Jong-Seung Park, Tohru Seraku, Jieun Kiaer
Collocations in Japanese and Korean have been studied extensively based on statistical tools. The criteria for collocations in these languages, however, have not been fully established in the literature, and it is not obvious whether all statistically significant combinations of words could be regarded as collocations.…
Eric Wehrli
Proper identification of collocations (and more generally of multiword expressions (MWEs), is an important qualitative step for several NLP applications and particularly so for translation. Since many MWEs cannot be translated literally, failure to identify them yields at best inaccurate translation. This paper is…
Luis Espinosa-Anke, Alexander Shvets, Alireza Mohammadshahi, James Henderson + 1 more
'James Henderson' 'Leo Wanner'] Recognizing and categorizing lexical collocations in context is useful for language learning, dictionary compilation and downstream NLP. However, it is a challenging task due to the varying degrees of frozenness lexical collocations exhibit. In this paper, we put forward a sequence…
Abdulaziz Altamimi
Although extensive research has been carried out on collocation processing, it is still unclear how cross-language overlap and transparency influence the processing of collocations by L2 learners. In the current study, a phrase judgment task was used to investigate the processing of congruent (i.e., exist in both…
Roger Bilisoly
Statistics pedagogy values using a variety of examples. Thanks to text resources on the Web, and since statistical packages have the ability to analyze string data, it is now easy to use language-based examples in a statistics class. Three such examples are discussed here. First, many types of wordplay (e.g.…
Xiangtao Du, Muhammad Afzaal, Hind Al Fadda
The investigation of learners’ interlanguage could greatly contribute to the teaching of English as a foreign language and the development of teaching materials. The present study investigates the collocational profiles of large-scale written production by English learners with varied L1 backgrounds and different…
Yevhen Kostiuk, Grigori Sidorov, Olga Kolesnikova
In natural language processing (NLP), lexical function is a concept to unambiguously represent semantic and syntactic features of words and phrases in text first crafted in the Meaning-Text Theory. Hierarchical classification of lexical functions involves organizing these features into a tree-like hierarchy of…
Stephen Meisenbacher, Maulik Chevli, Florian Matthes
Metric Differential Privacy Authors: ['Stephen Meisenbacher' 'Maulik Chevli' 'Florian Matthes'] Applications of Differential Privacy (DP) in NLP must distinguish between the syntactic level on which a proposed mechanism operates, often taking the form of word-level or document-level privatization. Recently, several…
Alexandra B. Bosshard, Maël Leroux, Nicholas A. Lester, Balthasar Bickel + 2 more
Emerging data in a range of non-human animal species have highlighted a latent ability to combine certain pre-existing calls together into larger structures. Currently, however, there exists no objective quantification of call combinations. This is problematic because animal calls can co-occur with one another simply…
Armine Garibyan, Achim Schilling, Claudia Boehm, Alexandra Zankl + 1 more
Language is fundamentally predictable, both on a higher schematic level as well as low-level lexical items. Regarding predictability on a lexical level, collocations are frequent co-occurrences of words that are often characterized by high strength of association. So far, psycho-and neurolin guistic studies have mostly…
Jie Lou
The present study took L2 English learners of different levels in China as subjects to investigate the relationship between collocational familiarity and collocational frequency as well as L1-L2 congruency, and then explored the development of the above relationship as L2 proficiency develops. The results showed that…
Mathieu Roche
The co-occurrence concept has different definitions depending on the research domain (i.e. linguistics, NLP, computer science, biology, etc.). This position paper reviews the main definitions in the literature and discusses similarities and differences according to the domains. This type of study can be crucial in the…
Elliot Howard-Spink, Monika Mircheva, Judith M. Burkart, Simon W. Townsend
Many animals communicate using sequences of signals, but identifying recurrent, non-random signal combinations remains methodologically challenging. Collocation analyses are increasingly popular approaches for detecting which signals animals combine at rates greater than expected by chance. However, existing methods…
Hui Li, Xiaolu Wang, Kevin B. Paterson, Hua Zhang + 1 more
A growing number of studies show a processing advantage for collocations, which are commonly-used juxtapositions of words, such as “joint effort” or “shake hands,” suggesting that skilled readers are keenly perceptive to the occurrence of two words in phrases. With the current research, we report two experiments that…
Joseph G. Mine, Claudia Wilke, Chiara Zulberti, Melika Bejhati + 5 more
Human communication is strikingly multi-modal, relying on vocal utterances combined with visual gestures, facial expressions and more. Recent efforts to describe multi-modal signal production in our ape relatives have shed important light on the evolutionary trajectory of this core hallmark of human language. However…
Hassane Kissane, Nikola Koelbl, Achim Schilling, Patrick Krauss
The mental representation of multiword verb constructions is a central question in neurolinguistics: are they stored as single lexical units or completely compositional items? This study investigates the neurocognitive processing of two multiword verb types: phrasal verbs (e.g., look up) and prepositional verbs (e.g.…