Translation has evolved over the years and is now benefiting from progress made in field of technology corpus linguistics. This study aims to use technology, particularly AntConc toolkit, compile an English-Arabic glossary most frequent collocations listed TED Talks parallel corpus. The contains 1,000 unique English headwords a total 3,670 along with their Arabic translations as produced by Ted...

one of the most important and brilliant aspects in each language is the collocation that finally add up to lexical coherence . coming together in semantics considers as one of the semantic relationships at lexical level that appears at all languages , and doesnt specialize for a certain language . mean while .the study of pre-islamic period poem about coming together is a significant affair . t...

This paper addresses a method for customizing an English-Korean machine translation system from general domain to patent or technical document domain. The customizing method includes the followings: (1) adapting the probabilities of POS tagger trained from general domain to the specific domain, (2) syntactically analyzing long and complex sentences by recognizing coordinate structures, and (3) ...

Collocation is an aspect of language generally considered arbitrary by nature and problematic to L2 learners who need collocational competence for effective communication. This study attempts, from the perspective of L2 learners, to have a deeper understanding of collocational use and some of the problems involved, by adopting a task based approach, using two highly comparable corpora based on ...

The present work is a pilot study of English lexical collocations in written productions by advanced Italian students of English. The aim is to describe errors made by learners in the production of word combinations. First a working definition of lexical collocation will be given in order to identify those word combinations that will be taken into consideration. Then, after introducing the data...

Two methods of evaluation of semantic similarity/dissimilarity of English nouns are proposed based on their modifier sets taken from Oxford Collocation Dictionary for Student of English. The first method measures similarity by the portion of modifiers commonly applicable to both nouns under evaluation. The second method measures dissimilarity by the change of the mean value of cohesion between ...

Selecting the word translation from a set of target language words, one that conveys the correct sense of source word and makes more fluent target language output, is one of core problems in machine translation. In this paper we compare the 3 methods of estimating word translation probabilities for selecting the word translation in Thai – English Machine Translation. The 3 methods are (1) Metho...