This study investigates the influence of using five web-based practice units on English verb-noun collocations with the design of a web-based Chinese-English bilingual concordancer (keyword retrieval program) on collocation learning. Thirty-two college EFL students participated by taking a pre-test and two post-tests, and responding to a background questionnaire and an evaluation questionnaire....

Much interest has recently been directed toward the knowledge of collocations in the field of second language learning since they have been asserted to improve fluency. The current study was intended to examine the effect of verbal and visuospatial working memory spans on the processing of collocations using a Self-Pace Reading Task (SPRT) and relevant working memory tasks. To this end, partici...

Statistical-based collocation extraction approaches suffer from (1) low precision rate because high co-occurrence bi-grams may be syntactically unrelated and are thus not true collocations; (2) low recall rate because some true collocations with low occurrences cannot be identified successfully by statistical-based models. To integrate both syntactic rules as well as semantic knowledge into a s...

This paper provides a specification of requirements for collocation extraction systems, taking as an example the extraction of noun + verb collocations from German texts. A hybrid approach to the extraction of habitual collocations and idioms is presented, aiming at a detailed description of collocations and their morphosyntax for natural language generation systems as well as to support learne...

In this paper we describe some interactions between collocations and automatic text categorization. First, we use the differents categories to extract strings (through collocations agglutinations) related to each categorie. Then we use these categories-specific strings to improve categorization. MOTS-CLÉS : collocations, catégorisation automatique de textes.