ALLT2012Memo4

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David Wible workshop

Central problem †

• What do learners need to master in order to master a word?
  • phraseological challenge for learners
    • single words vs. multi-word units
  • tokens don't flag themselves as tokens of WHAT
    • frozen expressoin <---> compositional expression
    • idiom principle <---> open choice principle
  • partially productive lexico-grammatical patterns
    • collocation/colligation/constructions

How corpora can help †

• Collocation Explorer (Taiwan): two-word collocation

• N-gram
  • every n-word adjacent pairs
• StringNet? structure
  • n-grams: the syntagmatic dimension of company that words keep
    • e.g. haven't the foggist idea
  • hybrid n-grams:
    • e.g. haven't (got) the ADJ idea

StringNet? †

• http://nav.stringnet.org