This paper investigates the value of computer technology as a medium for the delivery of parallel texts in English and Chinese for language learning. An English-Chinese parallel corpus was created for use in parallel concordancing -a technique which has been developed to respond to the desire to study language in its natural contexts of use. Specific problems of dealing with Chinese characters ...

Concordancing is one of the oldest corpus analysis tools, especially for written corpora. In NLP concordancing appears in training of speech-recognition system. Additionally, comparative studies of different languages result in parallel corpora. Concordancing for these corpora in a NLP context is a new approach. We propose to combine these fields of interest for a multi-purpose concordance for ...

The World Wide Web is a wondrous place, with an overwhelming variety of information in countless languages and domains. Just how many webpages there are and how they are distributed by language and content are not easy questions to answer. The Web is constantly growing and changing, and even the best estimates can only approximate its extent and composition. Studies of the nature of the Web ech...

This paper describes a system of terminological extraction capable of handling multi-word expressions, using a powerful syntactic parser. The system includes a concordancing tool enabling the user to display the context of the collocation, i.e. the sentence or the whole document where the collocation occurs. Since the corpora are multilingual, the system also offers an alignment mechanism for t...

The World Wide Web is a wondrous place, with an overwhelming variety of information in countless languages and domains. Just how many webpages there are and how they are distributed by language and content are not easy questions to answer. The Web is constantly growing and changing, and even the best estimates can only approximate its extent and composition. Studies of the nature of the Web ech...

Vocabulary knowledge is a core component of second language (L2) proficiency. The critical importance vocabulary learning acknowledged by L2 learners, teachers, and researchers alike. development growing area interest in research our increasingly technologized world where rapid technological advancement widespread access to high-speed internet have started provide unique promising opportunities...

in the introductory stages of language learning, students are exposed to parative forms explicitly taught in their textbooks. as knoch (2004) mthis is accomplished by teaching the comparative form of the adjective generally directly followed by a than clause. this study aimed to compare between native and nonnative material developers with regard to the coverage of comparative forms. in doing s...