The use of collocations plays an important role for the proficiency of ESL/EFL learners.
Hence, educators and researchers have long tried to identify collocations typical of either …

Statistical association measures (AM) play an important role in the automatic extraction of
collocations and multiword expressions from corpora, but many parameters governing their …

This chapter argues in favour of not regarding collocation and valency as strictly discrete
categories but rather seeing them as near neighbours in the lexis-grammar continuum …

Collocation candidate extraction from dependency-annotated corpora has become more
and more mainstream in collocation research over the past years. In most studies, however …

This article outlines why the treatment of idiomatic elements in language in terms of
constructions can be considered a real step forward in the understanding of the character of …

In this study, we propose a new evaluation scheme to assess the strengths and limitations of
collocation extraction measures and explore type-sensitive methods for extracting …

This article collected a large number of writing samples from computer English learners,
which included various types of writing errors. Subsequently, natural language processing …

Collocations (eg, target audience, highly controversial, abject poverty, abysmal failure,
extenuating circumstances, obviate the need) have continued to attract a lot of attention from …

There is little doubt that phraseology is at the heart of all language use. This paper examines
the treatment of phraseology in two influential Chinese--English dictionaries and four …

Support verb constructions figure among the most frequently investigated topics in the
literature on collocation. So far, most studies of this kind have focused on bipartite structures …