one of the most problematic areas in foreign language learning is collocation. it is often seen as arbitrary and an overwhelming obstacle to the achievement of nativelike fluency. current second language (l2) instruction research has encouraged the use of collaborative output tasks in l2 classrooms. this study examined the effects of two types of output tasks (editing and cloze) on the learning...

We participated in the SENSEVAL-3 English lexical sample task and multilingual lexical sample task. We adopted a supervised learning approach with Support Vector Machines, using only the official training data provided. No other external resources were used. The knowledge sources used were partof-speech of neighboring words, single words in the surrounding context, local collocations, and synta...

In this paper, we introduce a hybrid method to associate English collocations with sense class members chosen from WordNet. Our combinational approach includes a learning-based method, a paraphrase-based method and a sense frequency ranking method. At training time, a set of collocations with their tagged senses is prepared. We use the sentence information extracted from a large corpus and cros...

We describe a method to automatically discover translation collocations from a bilingual corpus and how these improve a machine translation system. The process of inference of collocations is iterative: an alignment is used to derive an initial set of collocations, these are used in turn to improve the alignment and this new alignment is used to generate new collocations. This process is repeat...

Translation has evolved over the years and is now benefiting from progress made in field of technology corpus linguistics. This study aims to use technology, particularly AntConc toolkit, compile an English-Arabic glossary most frequent collocations listed TED Talks parallel corpus. The contains 1,000 unique English headwords a total 3,670 along with their Arabic translations as produced by Ted...

Lewis (1993) recognized significance of word combinations including collocations by presenting lexical approach. Because of the crucial role of collocation in vocabulary acquisition, this research set out to evaluate the rate of collocations in Iranian EFL learners' writing production across L1 and L2. In addition, L1 interference with L2 collocational use in the learner' writing samples was st...

Abstract Academic lectures are potential sources of vocabulary learning for second language learners studying at universities where English is the medium instruction, as well those in Purposes (EAP) programs. Topic-related likely to occur frequently academic texts, and speech consists a reasonable proportion occurring sequences words. Yet no intervention studies have explored single words collo...