Classification of Lexical Collocation Errors in the Writings of Learners of Spanish

Coursebook Texts as a Helping Hand for Classifying Linguistic Complexity in Language Learners' Writings

We bring together knowledge from two different types of language learning data, texts learners read and texts they write, to improve linguistic complexity classification in the latter. Linguistic complexity in the foreig…

Evaluating language models for the retrieval and categorization of lexical collocations

Lexical collocations are idiosyncratic combinations of two syntactically bound lexical items (e.g., {``}heavy rain{''} or {``}take a step{''}). Understanding their degree of compositionality and idiosyncrasy, as well the…

CollFrEn: Rich Bilingual English–French Collocation Resource

Collocations in the sense of idiosyncratic lexical co-occurrences of two syntactically bound words traditionally pose a challenge to language learners and many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications alike. Reliab…

Example-based Acquisition of Fine-grained Collocation Resources

Collocations such as {``}heavy rain{''} or {``}make [a] decision{''}, are combinations of two elements where one (the base) is freely chosen, while the choice of the other (collocate) is restricted, depending on the base…

Towards Automatic Error Type Classification of Japanese Language Learners' Writings