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Understanding Collocation Learning: From Web N-grams to Building a Powerful Database

Discover the importance of learning collocation from existing resources to cultivate better language skills. Learn how to build a robust collocation database from Google N-gram collection and web text for effective language learning.

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Understanding Collocation Learning: From Web N-grams to Building a Powerful Database

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  1. From Web n-grams to collocation learning Shaoqun Wu University of Waikato

  2. heavy smoker strong smoker powerful tea big rain look book one sex product strong smoker heavy rain read a book disposable product

  3. What is collocation? Choice of one word conditions the choice of the next, and of the next again John McHardySinclair

  4. Learning collocation is important

  5. Existing collocation resources

  6. What are you doing tonight ? I am going to look TV.

  7. Watch TV?

  8. Z ZZ

  9. Building a collocation database from the Web text

  10. Google n-gram collection word_1 <space> word_2 <space>… word_n <tab> count

  11. Building a Web collocation collection • clean up n-grams, • assign syntactic tags to the words of n-grams, • match tagged n-grams with the syntactic patterns, and • discard ones that occur less than 100 times.

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  13. Parents have a wide range of options to cultivate their children with a good art understanding cultivate their children

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  15. Evaluation • language learners from the education school 86% vs 67% • myself: diary recording … • and you?

  16. Questions specific questions serious questions tough questions difficult questions hard questions critical question simple questions general questions interesting questions various questions common questions no further questions

  17. no stupid questions THERE ARE

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