Collocation is known as one of the most problematic areas in learning a second language and it seems that if one has tendency to improve his or her communication ability in another language, the elaboration of collocation using competence is among the most important issues. This study investigated the role of implicit input enhancement in teaching grammatical collocations for Iranian EFL learne...

We present a diagnostic evaluation platform which provides multi-factored evaluation based on automatically constructed check-points. A check-point is a linguistically motivated unit (e.g. an ambiguous word, a noun phrase, a verb~obj collocation, a prepositional phrase etc.), which are pre-defined in a linguistic taxonomy. We present a method that automatically extracts check-points from parall...

Nowadays, spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has become a powerful tool for providing significant wave height (SWH). Traditionally, validation of SAR derived SWH has been carried out against buoy measurements or model outputs, which only yield an inter-comparison, but not an “absolute” validation. In this study, the triple collocation error model has been introduced in the validation of ...

Collocation Extraction plays an important role in machine translation, information retrieval, secondary language learning, etc., and has obtained significant achievements in other languages, e.g. English and Chinese. There are some studies for Arabic collocation extraction using POS annotation to extract Arabic collocation. We used a hybrid method that included POS patterns and syntactic depend...

In this paper, a well-conditioned collocation method is constructed for solving general p-th order linear differential equations with various types of boundary conditions. Based on a suitable Birkhoff interpolation, we obtain a new set of polynomial basis functions that results in a collocation scheme with two important features: the condition number of the linear system is independent of the n...

We propose a discrete collocation method for the boundary integral equations which arise from solving Laplace's equation u = 0. The Laplace's equation is deened on connected regions D in R 3 with a smooth boundary S. The piecewise polynomial interpolation in the parametrization variables along with the collocation method is used, and a numerical integration scheme for collocation integrals is g...

This article investigates the stability of the collocation method for the Radiosity equation. We introduce graded meshes and trial spaces of piecewise poynomials and prove stability for some modified collocation method. Next we show that graded meshes are necessary, even for linear convergence. The generation of triangulations which allow higher order approximations leads to geometrical problem...

This study evaluates the impact of integrating two different collocation segmentations methods in a standard phrase-based statistical machine translation approach. The collocation segmentation techniques are implemented simultaneously in the source and target side. Each resulting collocation segmentation is used to extract translation units. Experiments are reported in the English-to-Spanish Bi...

Collocation and colligation are two closely related concepts associated with the distributional properties of linguistic items in actual language use. Specifically, collocation and colligation refer to the likelihood of co-occurrence of (two or more) lexical items and grammatical categories, respectively. Both terms have been attributed to J. R. Firth (1957: 194–195; 1968: 181–183; see Östman a...

‎in this paper‎, ‎an approach based on statistical spline model (ssm) and collocation method is proposed to solve volterra-fredholm integral equations‎. ‎the set of collocation nodes is chosen so that the points yield minimal error in the nodal polynomials‎. ‎under some standard assumptions‎, ‎we establish the convergence property of this approach‎. ‎numerical results on some problems are given...