A very large Russian dictionary is described. It contains currently 3.6 million links between its 120,000 entries. The links are syntagmatic (collocations), paradigmatic (WordNet-like), or paronymic (words similar in letters or in morphs). The entries of the dictionary are singleor multiwords belonging to four main POS. The entries represent so-called grammemes rather than lexemes: e.g., nouns ...

This paper proposes a semi-supervised approach for WSD in Word-Class based selectional preferences. The approach exploits syntagmatic and paradigmatic semantic redundancy in the semantic system and uses association computation and minimum description length for the task of WSD. Experiments on Predicate-Object collocations and Subject-Predicate collocations with polysemous predicates in Chinese ...

This paper describes a multi-word expression processor for preprocessing Turkish text for various language engineering applications. In addition to the fairly standard set of lexicalized collocations and multi-word expressions such as named-entities, Turkish uses a quite wide range of semi-lexicalized and non-lexicalized collocations. After an overview of relevant aspects of Turkish, we present...

The paper presents technique and analysis to discover distributional thesauri relations by using statistical similarity of different word’s contexts. The application uses educational electronic text corpus and the Sketch Engine software statistical search to extract and compare word’s collocations from the related text corpus. The semantic search used is based on the evaluation and comparison o...

The paper presents approach to analyze semantic content of academic subjects and its internal relations using statistically-based techniques for collocation extraction from large electronic educational text corpus. It offers a survey and analysis of some related corpus-based approaches to extract conceptual relations used for educational purpose and presents a technique for semantic search of c...

This paper describes a prototype system implemented for verifying the correctness of all verb-preposition-collocations found in a given text. The verification is done using statistics from the world’s largest corpus the Internet. The tool used for obtaining these statistics is the Google Web APIs service. The probability of correctness is computed according to the concepts of proportional score...

Drawing on the assumptions of socio-cognitive linguistics, focusing on the effective role of interaction in terms of reducing the cognitive burden in the process of learning, this quasi-experimental study aimed at investigating the effect of the Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) usage on the learning and retention of non-congruent collocations among 60 homogenized Iranian EFL learners, aged 18 to 24...