The Structure of the Collocational Dictionary

Benson, Morton

doi:10.1093/ijl/2.1.1

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“…The standard measure of collocation in typical linguistics is (Benson, 1989;Brundage et al, 1992), which consists of non-constituent word formation (Non-compositionality), Non-substitutability, and Non-Modifiability. For example, strong and powerful can be regarded as a pair of words of similar meaning.…”

Section: Judgment Feature Of Collocationmentioning

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A Method of Semantic Hidden Reduction Based on Collocation

Zhu¹

2017

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Semantic hiding is the technology of using semantic knowledge to embed secret information into text carrier. Among the many methods of semantic hiding, "synonym substitution" is paid more and more attention by semantic hiding. The main idea of this method is to hide the secret information by replacing synonyms in text so as to retain its original meaning as much as possible. In order to effectively restore hidden information, we need to find the synonym replacement location as accurately as possible, so it is very important to recognize the collocation of words. So far, however, there is no effective way to identify and match Natural Language Processing, that is, it is very difficult to tell exactly whether or not the words in the text have been replaced.In this paper, a hidden reduction method based on collocation is proposed. By analyzing the characteristics of synonyms and their collocation, this paper treats their relation as the relation between the pairs of samples in statistical sense. According to the nature of the statistic, we design several decision features to identify the collocations. At the same time, we introduce the form of point mutual information in the information theory as a feature to use the independence of quantifier pairs. In order to recognize word collocation effectively, this paper combines these features, and uses genetic algorithm to get the recognition degree of each feature. Then, a replacement recognition system based on immune abnormality mechanism is designed. Synonyms for collocation are regarded as "normal", while substitutions are regarded as "anomalies"". The experimental samples are generated by semantic hidden software TLEX. To better render the restore process, we rewrote the TLEX to add the key selection module.

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Section: Judgment Feature Of Collocationmentioning

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A Method of Semantic Hidden Reduction Based on Collocation

Zhu¹

2017

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“…More specifically, we are concerned with the problem of a more compact and efficient representation of restricted lexical co-occurrence information.l Restricted lexical co-occurrence is the co-occurrence of lexemes such that the choice of a lexeme LI for the expression of a given meaning is contingent on another lexeme 14 to which this meaning is applied. The phrase LI + L2 is called a collocation (d. Firth 1957;Hausmann 1985;Benson 1989) Restricted lexical co-occurrence is an extremely wide-spread phenomenon, which needs to be captured in lexica for both human and computational use. Cf., for example, a few sentences chosen randomly from a newspaper (the collocates are italicized, the bases are written in small capitals):…”

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“…The "subjective" and "arbitrary" nature of collocations causes some problems for learners (Benson et al, 1985). Gui and Yang (2002) also found out that the mistake in collocations was the most dominant mistake that students face in their study conducted with Chinese EFL students.…”

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The nature of lexical collocational errors committed by advanced Iranian learners of English

Shiri¹,

Sadighi²,

Azizi³

et al. 2017

J. Lang. Cult.

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Collocations are among the pervasive features of languages, and English seems to be particularly rich in such multi-word lexemes. Since they have not received due attention pedagogically, this research aimed at identifying problems facing advanced Iranian learners of English in producing collocations. Over 100 pages of materials written by 30 participants were carefully studied and a list of lexical collocations was extracted. The list was then analyzed and different types of correct and incorrect lexical collocations were determined. Results showed that Iranian advanced learners of English do have serious problems with English collocations. The problematic collocations were identified and assigned to six types of collocations. The most problematic type was Adjective + Noun combinations and the least problematic ones were those of Adverb + Adjective and Noun +of + Noun. The results of the study can have theoretical and pedagogical implications for syllabus designers, translators, material writers and, of course, teachers of the English language.

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The Structure of the Collocational Dictionary

Cited by 65 publications

References 2 publications

A Method of Semantic Hidden Reduction Based on Collocation

A Method of Semantic Hidden Reduction Based on Collocation

Lexikos 4

The nature of lexical collocational errors committed by advanced Iranian learners of English

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