A noun phrase parser is useful for several purposes, e.g. for index term generation in an information retrieval application; for the extraction of collocational knowledge from large corpora for the development of computational tools for language analysis; for providing a shallow but accurately analysed input for a more ambitious parsing system; for the discovery of translation units, and so on....

This paper explores the determinants of adjective-noun plausibility by using correlation analysis to compare judgements elicited from human subjects with five corpus-based variables: co-occurrence frequency of the adjective-noun pair, noun frequency, conditional probability of the noun given the adjective, the log-likelihood ratio, and Resnik’s (1993) selectional association measure. The highes...

This paper presents an academic (non-commercial) lexicographic project called Dynamic Combinatorial Dictionary, which is currently being developed by members of the LACELL Research Group at the University of Murcia. The aim of this project is to bring e-Lexicography in closer alignment with lexical models that cannot be implemented in printed dictionaries. Theoretically, the project is informed...

MOTIVATION Side-chain modeling has seen wide applications in computational structure biology. Most of the popular side-chain modeling programs explore the conformation space using discrete rigid rotamers for speed and efficiency. However, in the tightly packed environments of protein interiors, these methods will inherently lead to atomic clashes and hinder the prediction accuracy. RESULTS We...

The current study was an attempt to investigate the effect of performing Focus on Form (FoF), Focus on Meaning (FoM), and Focus on Forms (FoFs) instructions on the development of collocational knowledge among Iranian intermediate EFL learners, and to explore any significant difference on the achievement of the participants' collocational knowledge among three groups. In so doing, 107 female int...

Recent work in metrical typology within Optimality Theory has emphasised the rhythmic distribution of stress peaks by reference to clashes and lapses, compared to the more central role of foot constituency characteristic of most previous approaches. One consequence of this emphasis has been the introduction of constraints that require reference to non-adjacent objects in the representation, suc...

For many years, scientists have been trying to unravel the protein folding process. This paper presents a proposition of an improvement to one of models trying to describe it, the elliptical model, developed by the Department of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine UJ-CM [22]. The model assumes a division of a protein folding process into two stages: the Early-Stage (ES) and the Late-Stage (LS). Aft...