Abstract The present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate Iranian EFL learners' writing ability. For this study, 84 Iranian learners, studying English as a foreign language in Bayan Institute, Iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. Conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control...

The present study aims at investigating the effect of different levels of lexical collocational density on EFL learners’ reading comprehension. Eighty sophomore students with different levels of proficiency studying at  Zand Institute of Higher Education in Shiraz, Iran were chosen from among eighty five learners based on their score distribution on a reduced TOEFL test constructed by Education...

Park, Sohee. 2003. Lexical Collocation Use by Korean EFL College learners. SNU Working Papers in English Linguistics and Language 2, 19-40. This study investigated Korean EFL college students' lexical collocation use. The specific research questions were as follows: 1) Which factors affect the collocational competence?; 2) Which collocation types are the most problematic to Korean EFL college l...

We present a formulation of rigid body dynamics with frictional contact that leverages ideas from discrete mechanics to derive time-stepping schemes with any desired order of integration accuracy. By utilizing the new time-stepping methods as dynamics constraints in a direct trajectory optimization scheme, we are able to perform contact-implicit trajectory optimization with accuracy equal to tr...

An impressive amount of work was devoted over the past few decades to collocation extraction. The state of the art shows that there is a sustained interest in the morphosyntactic preprocessing of texts in order to better identify candidate expressions; however, the treatment performed is, in most cases, limited (lemmatization, POS-tagging, or shallow parsing). This article presents a collocatio...

Collocation has always been an important issue in language research, especially in Chinese language researches. Chinese is an isolated language, which lacks morphological changes.Establishing a relatively complete dictionary of Chinese collocation will be a great contribution to Chinese study and research. Collocation plays a significant supporting role in many fields of NLP, such as informatio...

Collocation is a popular method in geodesy for combining heterogeneous data of different kind. It comprises adjustment, interpolation and extrapolation as special cases. Current methods of collocation apply however only if the trend parameters are real valued. In the present contribution we will generalize the theory of collocation by permitting the trend parameters to be integer valued. It wil...

This paper presents the design and construction of an annotated Chinese collocation bank as the resource to support systematic research on Chinese collocations. With the help of computational tools, the bi-gram and n-gram collocations corresponding to 3,643 headwords are manually identified. Furthermore, annotations for bi-gram collocations include dependency relation, chunking relation and cla...

In this paper we present a new method of automatic collocation identification. Collocation is an important relation between words, which is widely used, among others, in information retrieval tasks. Over the last years, many methods of automatic collocation acquisition from text corpora have been proposed. The approach described in this paper differs from the others by focusing on domain colloc...