1. Supporting Collocation Learning Shaoqun Wu University of Waikato

2. strong smoker powerful tea big rain look book one sex product heavy smoker 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 McHardy Sinclair

4. incite the soldiers to fight bravely The most important reason which caused these changes was the development of economy in developing countries.

5. Semantic Prosody (connotation) Many uses of words and phrases show a tendency to occur in a certain semantic environment John McHardy Sinclair

6. outcome, consequence and aftermath

11. horse horse tiger tiger people mountain people sea

12. Existing collocation resources

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

16. Watch TV?

19. Z Z

20. Collocation databases Web Phrases Web collocations British National Corpus, British Academic Written Text and Wikipedia

21. http://flax.nzdl.org

22. Building collocation databases

23. Google n-gram collection word_1 word_2 … word_n count tokens 1,024,908,267,22910 12 sentences 95,119,665,584 0.95 10 9 unigrams 13,588,391 0.014 10 9 bi-grams 314,843,401 0.3 10 9 trigrams 977,069,902 1.0 10 9 four-grams 1,313,818,354 1.3 10 9 five-grams 1,176,470,663 1.2 10 9

24. language knowledge is collocation Language knowledge is collocation knowledge 12111211

25. language knowledge knowledge is is collocation collocation knowledge 11111111

26. language knowledge is 1 knowledge is collocation 1 is collocation knowledge 1 Language knowledge is collocation knowledge

27. language knowledge is collocation knowledge is collocation knowledge 11 11

28. Language knowledge is collocation knowledge Language knowledge is collocation knowledge 1

29. Natural Language Porcessing OpenNLP toolkits How are you? Im fine.

31. cut: noun or verb? Grow your own cut flowers. How to cut flowers to last longer? cut flowers

32. cut: noun or verb? cut flowers and ornamental foliage cut flowers

33. Language knowledge is collocation knowledge Language/NN knowledge/NN is/VBZ collocation/NN knowledge/NN

34. Extracting noun + noun phrases Language/NN knowledge/NN is/VBZ collocation/NN knowledge/NN

35. Language/NN knowledge/NN collocation/NN knowledge/NN Extracting noun + noun phrases

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

37. It will health problem bring the heath problem.

38. Dear Jane You are very very very beautiful. I love you very much. Joe