The Construction of a Chinese Collocational Knowledge Resource and Its Application for Second Language Acquisition

Renfen Hu, Jiayong Chen, Kuang-hua Chen


Abstract
The appropriate use of collocations is a challenge for second language acquisition. However, high quality and easily accessible Chinese collocation resources are not available for both teachers and students. This paper presents the design and construction of a large scale resource of Chinese collocational knowledge, and a web-based application (OCCA, Online Chinese Collocation Assistant) which offers free and convenient collocation search service to end users. We define and classify collocations based on practical language acquisition needs and utilize a syntax based method to extract nine types of collocations. Totally 37 extraction rules are compiled with word, POS and dependency relation features, 1,750,000 collocations are extracted from a corpus for L2 learning and complementary Wikipedia data, and OCCA is implemented based on these extracted collocations. By comparing OCCA with two traditional collocation dictionaries, we find OCCA has higher entry coverage and collocation quantity, and our method achieves quite low error rate at less than 5%. We also discuss how to apply collocational knowledge to grammatical error detection and demonstrate comparable performance to the best results in 2015 NLP-TEA CGED shared task. The preliminary experiment shows that the collocation knowledge is helpful in detecting all the four types of grammatical errors.
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C16-1307
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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3254–3263
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Renfen Hu, Jiayong Chen, and Kuang-hua Chen. 2016. The Construction of a Chinese Collocational Knowledge Resource and Its Application for Second Language Acquisition. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 3254–3263, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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