This paper presents the mechanisms of and criteria for compiling a new learner corpus of English, the quantitative characteristics of the corpus and a practical example of its pedagogical application. The Taiwanese Learner Corpus of English (TLCE), probably the largest annotated learner corpus of English in Taiwan so far, contains 2105 pieces of English writing (around 730,000 words) from Taiwa...

Lexical approaches to Academic and Technical English have been well documented by scholars from as early as Cowie (1978). More recent work demonstrates how computer technology can assist in the effective analysis of corpus-based data (Cowie, 1998; Pedersen, 1995; Scott, 2000). For teaching purposes, this recent research has shown that the distinction between common coreness and diversity is a c...

The present study examines English patent documents extracted from LexisNexis. We compiled a reference corpus of independent claim texts and lay the focus specifically on their collocation features. The findings suggest the functional development of independent claim involves verb-noun collocation and semantic prosody. Verb-noun collocations happen to function as semantic trigger affected by se...

abstractthe 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 ...

In research on collocations published in English we encounter, albeit rarely, the use of notion “metaphorical collocations”. It is interesting to note that seldom if ever are metaphorical defined any way these studies, suggesting researchers find term self-explanatory. However, seeing an exciting area yet draw attention from wider community researchers, aim this paper analyze current understand...

We design a three-layered collocation extraction tool by integrating syntactic and semantic knowledge and apply it in China English studies. The tool first extracts peripheral collocations in the frequency layer from dependency triples, then extracts semi-peripheral collocations in the syntactic layer by association measures, and last extracts core collocations in the semantic layer with a simi...

The literature on categorial type logic includes proposals for semantically inactive additives, quantifiers, and modalities Morrill (1994[17]), Hepple (1990[2]), Moortgat (1997[9]), but to our knowledge there has been no proposal for semantically inactive multiplicatives. In this paper we formulate such a proposal (thus filling a gap in the typology of categorial connectives) in the context of ...

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...

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