We like people and objects more when they are described in positive than negative terms. But even seemingly neutral words can elicit or responses. This is the case for that predominantly occur alongside (or negative) natural language. Despite lacking positivity/negativity evaluated isolation, such semantically prosodic activate evaluative associations of their usual company, which color judgmen...

Collocations are ubiquitous in everyday language, which help language users sound more natural and ease the processing burden during production. They also commonly taught foreign classrooms those learners who can master these prevalent word combinations chunks get to use fluently as they enjoy a advantage. There different approaches definition of frequently co-occurring combinations, but curren...

One of the hardest problems for knowledge extraction from machine readable textual sources is distinguishing entities and events that are part of the main story from those that are part of the narrative structure, hnportantly, however, reported sl)eech in newspaper articles explicitly links these two levels. In this paper, we illustrate what the lexical semantics of reporting verbs must incorpo...

1. Introduction The notion of collocation has enjoyed mixed fortunes in the 50 odd years of its existence. Claimed to be obscure (Lyons, 1977: 612), counterproductive (Langendoen 1968: 63ff) and generally useless (Lehrer 1974) 1 by its detractors, the idea that part of the meaning of a word is somehow related to its " word accompaniment, the other word material in which [it is] most commonly or...

The appropriate use of collocations is a challenge for second language acquisition. However, high quality and easily accessible Chinese collocation resources are not available for both teachers and students. This paper presents the design and construction of a large scale resource of Chinese collocational knowledge, and a web-based application (OCCA, Online Chinese Collocation Assistant) which ...

This study examines how different dimensions of corpus frequency data may affect the outcome of statistical modeling of lexical items. Our analysis mainly focuses on a recently constructed elderly speaker corpus that is used to reveal patterns of aging people’s language use. A conversational corpus contributed by speakers in their 20s serves as complementary material. The target words examined ...

C o n t r a r y t o the l o n g h e l d b e l i e f o f t r a n s f o ~ n a t i o n a l E~mmar i ans f o r communica t ion i n g e n e r a l , t he m a j o r i t y c f natural languaEe sentences which people actually use in oomm u n i c a t i n g w i t h a c o ~ p u t e r , i n an u n c o n s t r a i n e d mode, a r e no t n o v e l . As Thompson and Thompson 1981s660 obselwez "monotony o f s t...

Analyzing compound nouns is one of the crucial issues for natural language processing systems, in particular for those systems that aim at a wide coverage of domaius. In this paper, we propose a mcthod to analyze structures of Japanese compound nouns by using both word collocations statistics and a thesaurus. An experiment is conducted with 160,000 word collocations to analyze comlmund nouns of...

In this paper, we propose a new method for extracting bilingual collocations from a parallel corpus to provide phrasal translation memories. The method integrates statistical and linguistic information to achieve effective extraction of bilingual collocations. The linguistic information includes parts of speech, chunks, and clauses. The method involves first obtaining an extended list of Englis...