In this paper, I introduce the DICI, an electronic dictionary of Italian collocations designed to support the acquisition of the collocational competence in learners of Italian as a second or foreign language. I briefly describe the composition of the reference Italian corpus from which the collocations are extracted, and the methodology of extraction and filtering of candidate collocations. It...

Here, we show that modern solution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) structures of RNA exhibit more steric clashes and conformational ambiguities than their crystallographic X-ray counterparts. To tackle these issues, we developed RNA-ff1, a new force field for structure calculation with Xplor-NIH. Using seven published NMR datasets, RNA-ff1 improves covalent geometry and MolProbity validation c...

Even when sophisticated software development process is used, e.g., the Stakeholder Win Win Risk-Driven Spiral Process, software development projects often fail. A prime reason for this failure is unresolved, often undetected, differences among stakeholders’ sets of assumptions—their “models”—of various aspects of the project. MBASE is an approach to identifying “model clashes” so that their ri...

Abs t rac t . Collocational analysis is the basis of many s tud ies on lexical acquis i t ion . Collocations are extracted from corpora using more or less shallow processing techniques, that span from purely statistical methods to partial parsers. Our point is that, despite one of tile objectives of collocational analysis is to acquire high-coverage lexical data at low human cost, this is often...

The present paper explores the processing of rhythmic irregularities in the form of so-called stress clashes in German noun compounds. This type of rhythmic irregularity has been found to be problematic as it induces higher costs in language processing. Moreover, the number of syllables in rhythmically irregular structures seems to play an important role for their correct perception. The presen...

We describe sister machine translation prototypes, Ntran, an English to Japanese system developed at UMIST, and Aidtrans, Japanese to English, at Sheffield, both designed for use by an English monolingual. Aidtraus uses extensive and sophisticated collocational analysis radically to reduce the need for conventional post-editing. Ntran offers interactive query at three stages: on-line dictionary...

Lexical information is one of the most important source that can improve the accuracy of the syntactic disambigua-tion. This paper describes a Korean probabilistic parser that is based on the probabilities of phrase structure rules as well as the probabilities of collocational information between lexical items to resolve syntactic ambiguity. The proposed parser is shown by means of an extensive...

This paper discusses the lexicographical concept of lexical functions (Mel'~uk and Zolkovsky, 1984) and their potential exploitation in the development of a machine translation lexicon designed to handle collocations. We show how lexical functions can be thought to reflect cross-linguistic meaning concepts for collocational structures and their translational equivalents, and therefore suggest t...