: This study investigated the impact of audio-visual input enhancement teaching techniques on improving English as Foreign Language (EFL) learnersˈ collocation learning as well as their accuracy concerning collocation use in narrative writing. In addition, it compared the impact and efficiency of audio-visual input enhancement in two learning contexts, namely traditional and mo...

The detection of abbreviations is an important step in the process of sentence boundary detection. We describe a flexible, languageindependent and accurate method based on the idea that an abbreviation can be viewed as a collocation. As such, it can be identified by using methods for collocation detection such as the log likelihood ratio. Although the log likelihood ratio is known to show a goo...

Collocation and idiom extraction are wellknown challenges with many potential applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Our experimental, open-source software system, called ICE, is a python package for flexibly extracting collocations and idioms, currently in English. It also has a competitive POS tagger that can be used alone or as part of collocation/idiom extraction. ICE is availab...

In this paper, we describe an algorithm that employs syntactic and statistical analysis to extract bilingual collocations from a parallel corpus. The preferred syntactic patterns are obtained from idioms and collocations in a machine-readable dictionary. Phrases matching the patterns are extract from aligned sentences in a parallel corpus. Those phrases are subsequently matched up via cross-lin...

We describe a language-independent, flexible, and accurate method for the detection of abbreviations in text corpora. It is based on the idea that an abbreviation can be viewed as a collocation, and can be identified by using methods for collocation detection such as the log likelihood ratio. Although the log likelihood ratio is known to show a good recall, its precision is poor. We employ scal...

[Abstract] On the basis of a corpus-driven approach, this research investigates high-frequency verb collocations in the case of have by Chinese non-English major learners. Results show that despite the most frequent use of the verb have, the learners make use of relatively low collocation types. The learners tend to simply overuse the words related to the topic or given by the writing direction...

Term and collocation bases represent valuable additional resources covering specific domain and frequently expressions, which then can be used in further research. The paper presents possible model of building terminology and collocation base, using statistical and linguistic approaches in order to gain experience in building of such resources for the English Croatian language pair. The aim of ...

This study analyzes lexical proficiency in oral and written texts produced by second language (L2) learners of English. The purpose of the study is to examine relationships between analytic scores of depth of lexical knowledge, breadth of lexical knowledge, and access to core lexical items and holistic scores of lexical proficiency. A corpus of 240 spoken texts and 240 written texts produced by...