collocations are one of the areas generally considered problematic for efl learners. iranian learners of english like other efl learners face various problems in producing oral collocations.  an analysis of learners' spoken interlanguage both indicates the scope of the problem and the necessity to spend more time and energy by learners on mastering collocations. the present study specifically f...

Transfer learning (TL) utilizes data or knowledge from one more source domains to facilitate in a target domain. It is particularly useful when the domain has very few no labeled data, due annotation expense, privacy concerns, etc. Unfortunately, effectiveness of TL not always guaranteed. Negative transfer (NT), i.e., leveraging data/knowledge undesirably reduces performance domain, and been lo...