The importance of collocations for success in language learning is widely recognized. Concordancers, originally designed for linguists, are among the most popular tools for students to obtain, organize, and study collocations derived from corpora. This paper describes the design and development of a collocation learning system that is built from Wikipedia text and provides language learners wit...

Collocations constitute an important type of syntagmatic information whose introduction into WordNets has not yet been addressed. The goal of our work is the integration of the collocational material for the field of emotion nouns encoded in the DIccionario de colocaciones del español (DICE) in terms of Lexical Functions into the Spanish part of the EuroWordNet (SpEWN). Two features of collocat...

Identifying collocations in a text (e.g., break record) and correctly translating them (battre record vs. *casser record) represent key issues in machine translation, notably because of their prevalence in language and their syntactic flexibility. This article describes a method for discovering translation equivalents for collocations from parallel corpora, aimed at increasing the lexical cover...

Exemple : 1 ère itération : travail administratif 2 ème itération : responsabilité de travail-administratif À chaque itération, les collocations binaires (et ternaires pour les collocations prépositionnelles) sont sélectionnées avec une mesure statistique et l'ajout de paramètres [Roche et al., 2004]. Corpus étudiés :-Corpus de Ressources Humaines (société PerformanSe) – 3784 Ko (en français)-C...

Collocations in Japanese and Korean have been studied extensively based on statistical tools. The criteria for collocations in these languages, however, have not been fully established in the literature, and it is not obvious whether all statistically significant combinations of words could be regarded as collocations. In this article, we point out empirical problems in extracting collocations ...

This paper mines collocations from two different web usage corpora, NTU proxy log and TTS search log. The precisions for NTU and TTS test data are 61.76% and 57.50%, respectively, by human judgment for 2% sampling of extracted collocations. For automatic evaluation, we submit extracted collocation to Google search engine, and the resulting page counts are used to compute the mutual information ...

The zebrafish is a recent vertebrate model system that shows great potential for a genetic analysis of behavior. Early development is extraordinarily rapid, so that larvae already display a range of behaviors 5 days after fertilization. In particular the visual system develops precociously, supporting a number of visually mediated behaviors in the larva. This provides the opportunity to use the...