Automatic detection of unexpected/erroneous collocations in learner corpus

Jen-Yu Li, Thomas Gaillat


Abstract
This research investigates the collocational errors made by English learners in a learner corpus. It focuses on the extraction of unexpected collocations. A system was proposed and implemented with open source toolkit. Firstly, the collocation extraction module was evaluated by a corpus with manually annotated collocations. Secondly, a standard collocation list was collected from a corpus of native speaker. Thirdly, a list of unexpected collocations was generated by extracting candidates from a learner corpus and discarding the standard collocations on the list. The overall performance was evaluated, and possible sources of error were pointed out for future improvement.
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2020.mwe-1.13
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Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons
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December
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2020
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online
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Stella Markantonatou, John McCrae, Jelena Mitrović, Carole Tiberius, Carlos Ramisch, Ashwini Vaidya, Petya Osenova, Agata Savary
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MWE
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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101–106
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Jen-Yu Li and Thomas Gaillat. 2020. Automatic detection of unexpected/erroneous collocations in learner corpus. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons, pages 101–106, online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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