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| author | Wu, Shaoqun Witten, Ian H. Franken, Margaret |
| author_facet | Wu, Shaoqun Witten, Ian H. Franken, Margaret Wu, Shaoqun Witten, Ian H. Franken, Margaret |
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| contents | Utilizing Lexical Data from a Web-Derived Corpus to Expand Productive Collocation Knowledge Wu, Shaoqun Witten, Ian H. Franken, Margaret Electronic Libraries Internet Computational Linguistics Second Language Learning Program Descriptions Instructional Effectiveness Writing (Composition) Second Language Instruction Educational Technology Computer Uses in Education Computer Software Computer Software Evaluation Computer System Design Writing Improvement Writing Strategies Collocations are of great importance for second language learners, and a learner's knowledge of them plays a key role in producing language fluently (Nation, 2001: 323). In this article we describe and evaluate an innovative system that uses a Web-derived corpus and digital library software to produce a vast concordance and present it in a way that helps students use collocations more effectively in their writing. Instead of live search we use an off-line corpus of short sequences of words, along with their frequencies. They are preprocessed, filtered, and organized into a searchable digital library collection containing 380 million five-word sequences drawn from a vocabulary of 145,000 words. Although the phrases are short, learners can browse more extended contexts because the system automatically locates sample sentences that contain them, either on the Web or in the British National Corpus. Two evaluations were conducted: an expert user tested the system to see if it could generate suitable alternatives for given text fragments, and students used it for a particular exercise. Both suggest that, even within the constraints of a limited study, the system could and did help students improve their writing. |
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| spellingShingle | Utilizing Lexical Data from a Web-Derived Corpus to Expand Productive Collocation Knowledge Wu, Shaoqun Witten, Ian H. Franken, Margaret Electronic Libraries Internet Computational Linguistics Second Language Learning Program Descriptions Instructional Effectiveness Writing (Composition) Second Language Instruction Educational Technology Computer Uses in Education Computer Software Computer Software Evaluation Computer System Design Writing Improvement Writing Strategies Utilizing Lexical Data from a Web-Derived Corpus to Expand Productive Collocation Knowledge Wu, Shaoqun Witten, Ian H. Franken, Margaret Electronic Libraries Internet Computational Linguistics Second Language Learning Program Descriptions Instructional Effectiveness Writing (Composition) Second Language Instruction Educational Technology Computer Uses in Education Computer Software Computer Software Evaluation Computer System Design Writing Improvement Writing Strategies Collocations are of great importance for second language learners, and a learner's knowledge of them plays a key role in producing language fluently (Nation, 2001: 323). In this article we describe and evaluate an innovative system that uses a Web-derived corpus and digital library software to produce a vast concordance and present it in a way that helps students use collocations more effectively in their writing. Instead of live search we use an off-line corpus of short sequences of words, along with their frequencies. They are preprocessed, filtered, and organized into a searchable digital library collection containing 380 million five-word sequences drawn from a vocabulary of 145,000 words. Although the phrases are short, learners can browse more extended contexts because the system automatically locates sample sentences that contain them, either on the Web or in the British National Corpus. Two evaluations were conducted: an expert user tested the system to see if it could generate suitable alternatives for given text fragments, and students used it for a particular exercise. Both suggest that, even within the constraints of a limited study, the system could and did help students improve their writing. |
| title | Utilizing Lexical Data from a Web-Derived Corpus to Expand Productive Collocation Knowledge |
| topic | Electronic Libraries Internet Computational Linguistics Second Language Learning Program Descriptions Instructional Effectiveness Writing (Composition) Second Language Instruction Educational Technology Computer Uses in Education Computer Software Computer Software Evaluation Computer System Design Writing Improvement Writing Strategies |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ874596 |