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| Title | The Dictionary of Italian Collocations: Design and Integration in an Online Learning Environment |
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| Authors | Stefania Spina |
| Abstract | In this paper, I introduce the DICI, an electronic dictionary of Italiancollocations designed to support the acquisition of the collocationalcompetence in learners of Italian as a second or foreign language. I briefly describe the composition of the reference Italian corpus from whichthe collocations are extracted, and the methodology of extraction and filteringof candidate collocations. It is an experimental methodology, based on POSfiltering, frequency and statistical measures, and tested on a 12-million-wordsample from the reference corpus. Furthermore, I explain the main criteria forthe composition of the dictionary, in addition to its integration with aVirtual Learning Environment (VLE), aimed at supporting learning activities oncollocations. I briefly describe some of the main features of this integrationwith the VLE, such as the automatic recognition of collocations in writtenItalian texts, the possibility for students to obtain further linguisticinformation on selected collocations, and the automatic generation of tests forcollocational competence assessment of language learners.While the main goal of the DICI is pedagogical, it is also intended tocontribute to research in the field of collocations. |
| Language | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.) |
| Topics | MultiWord Expressions & Collocations, Lexicon, lexical database, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.) |
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The Dictionary of Italian Collocations: Design and Integration in an Online Learning Environment |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{SPINA10.681, author = {Stefania Spina}, title = {The Dictionary of Italian Collocations: Design and Integration in an Online Learning Environment}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |