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Human Associations Help to Detect Conventionalized Multiword Expressions
In this paper we show that if we want to obtain human evidence about
conventionalization of some phrases, we should ask native speakers about
associations they have to a given phrase and its component words. We have shown
that if component words of a phrase have each other as frequent associations,
then this phrase can be considered as conventionalized. Another type of
conventionalized phrases can be revealed using two factors: low entropy of
phrase associations and low intersection of component word and phrase
associations. The association experiments were performed for the Russian
language
Decreasing lexical data sparsity in statistical syntactic parsing - experiments with named entities
In this paper we present preliminary experiments that aim to reduce lexical data sparsity in statistical parsing by exploiting information about named entities. Words in the
WSJ corpus are mapped to named entity clusters and a latent variable constituency parser is trained and tested on the transformed corpus. We explore two different methods for
mapping words to entities, and look at the effect of mapping various subsets of named entity types. Thus far, results show no improvement in parsing accuracy over the best baseline score; we identify possible problems and outline suggestions for future directions
ALANZ handbook 2018
Co-edited Handbook for participants at December ALANZ Symposiu
ALANZ 2018
1st December 2018
Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) Hamilton
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the ALANZ SYMPOSIUM 2018 is now open. We invite proposals for paper presentations, interactive sessions and posters.
The landscape of English language teaching is constantly changing and as teachers contemplate new cohorts of learners, they face this question: Is business as usual enough?
In today’s settings there are new technologies to incorporate into learning and teaching, different teaching spaces becoming available, a need to balance fostering learner autonomy with the pastoral care of students, as well as ensuring that our teaching is relevant to the world our students face.
We would like to adopt a collegial approach to this question and so invite abstracts from members and non-members of ALANZ and in particular from new and emerging researchers.
Presentation types:
* Oral Presentations: These will be allocated 20 minutes and 5 minutes for questions (25 minutes total) usually supported with visual aids.
* Interactive sessions: These could be workshops or informal discussions around points of interest in Applied Linguistics (45 minutes) and could be supported by visual aids or activities.
* Posters: Often some research projects can be best presented in a visual manner in the form of a poster.
Abstracts (250 words max.) can be submitted to one of two committee members: * Anthea Fester email: [email protected] or * Celine Kearney email: [email protected]
Deadline for abstract submission: 7th September 2018
Notification of acceptance: 28th September 201
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