This paper presents a method for extracting multi-word collocations (MWCs) from text corpora, which is based on the previous extraction of syntactically bound collocation bigrams. We describe an iterative word linking procedure which relies on a syntactic criterion and aims at building up arbitrarily long expressions that represent multi-word collocation candidates. We propose several measures ...

this is a longitudinal case study of two farsi-speaking children learning english: ‘bernard’ and ‘melissa’, who were 7;4 and 8;4 at the start of data collection. the research deals with the initial state and further development in the child second language (l2) acquisition of syntax regarding the presence or absence of copula as a functional category, as well as the role and degree of l1 influe...

زبان شناسان عرب از آغاز تاکنون پژوهش های ژرف و گسترده ای را پیرامون زبان عربی، به ویژه در زمینه لغت شناسی و تصریف و قوانین تغییر و تحول واژگان و اصول و ریشه یابی آن، انجام داده اند. این کاوش ها به شناخت گونه های مختلف واژگان و تشخیص قواعد حاکم بر دگرگونی های آن انجامید. نتایج حاصل از این مطالعات و بررسی ها در پیدایش علم صرف (morphology) و نگارش لغت نامه های زبان تجلی کرد، و در اثر این پژوهش ها ...

Abstract: Lexical bundles, as building blocks of coherent discourse, have been the subject of much research in the last two decades. While many of such studies have been mainly concerned with  exploring  variations  in  the  use  of  these  word  sequences  across  different  registers  and disciplines, very few have addressed the use of some particular groups of lexical bundles within some gen...

This prototype system demonstrates a novel method of word segmentation based on corpus statistics. Since the central technique we used is unsupervised training based on a large corpus, we refer to this approach as unsupervised word segmentation. The unsupervised approach is general in scope and can be applied to both Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese. In this prototype, we illustrate its use in wo...

This paper describes the process of building Czech wordnet. We give the enumeration of the resources and tools used for this purpose and characterize so far obtained results. There are some problems with Czech as a synthetic language, with its rich inflectional morphology and word derivation. They are mentioned below and some solutions are suggested. The necessary resources for building Czech w...