The process of learning prepositions gets complicated most notably for learners English as foreign language (EFL) because they encounter challenges in grasping the manifold meanings and dissimilar contextual applications. This study is aimed at identifying sources difficulty that Indonesia undergo preposition. To this end, a multiple-choice test was designed to gather data regarding problems ac...

Collocation is an often-neglected language form that foreign teachers and students should focus on to achieve competence in a target language. In this research, the researchers studied purposely facilitate both second produce correct appropriate collocations. The purposes of research were 1) study collocation error levels Bachelor Arts English Business studying at Northern Rajabhat University, ...

This paper describes the submission of the National University of Singapore (NUS) to the Helping Our Own (HOO) Pilot Shared Task. Our system targets spelling, article, and preposition errors in a sequential processing pipeline.

Prepositions are hard to translate, because their meaning is often vague, and the choice of the correct preposition is often arbitrary. At the same time, making the correct choice is often critical to the coherence of the output text. In the context of statistical machine translation, this difficulty is enhanced due to the possible long distance between the preposition and the head it modifies,...

We describe the ’TILB’ team entry for the CONLL-2013 Shared Task. Our system consists of five memory-based classifiers that generate correction suggestions for center positions in small text windows of two words to the left and to the right. Trained on the Google Web 1T corpus, the first two classifiers determine the presence of a determiner or a preposition between all words in a text. The sec...

The objective of this work is to automatically determine, in an unsupervised manner, Spanish prepositional phrases of the type preposition nominal phrase preposition (P−NP−P) that behave in a sentence as a lexical unit and their semantic and syntactic properties cannot be deduced from the corresponding properties of each simple form, e.g., por medio de (by means of), a fin de (in order to), con...

We describe the Valkuil.net team entry for the HOO 2012 Shared Task. Our systems consists of four memory-based classifiers that generate correction suggestions for middle positions in small text windows of two words to the left and to the right. Trained on the Google 1TB 5gram corpus, the first two classifiers determine the presence of a determiner or a preposition between all words in a text i...