This paper presents the results of our works, most special dictionaries of general language, mono, bi or multilingual, developed by researchers at five universities in Brazil and in collaboration with experts from three ...

The theme of this study is the treatment of collocations in bilingual Portuguese-English dictionaries to Brazilian students. The main objective is to analyze and compare the way that occurs the record of collocations on ...

Collocations are conventionalized, recurrent and arbitrary lexical combinations. Due to the fact that they are highly specific for a particular language and may be contextually restricted, collocations pose a problem to ...

Abstract. Building bilingual dictionaries from Wikipedia has been extensively studied in the area of computation linguistics. These dictionaries play a crucial role in Natural Language Processing(NLP) applications ...

This article deals with the teaching of vocabulary with the Portuguese/ English dictionary. It highlights the importance of the effective use of a new word/ expression in order to guarantee language acquisition. The ...

The need to store and query a set of strings - a string dictionary - arises in many kinds of applications. While classically these string dictionaries have accounted for a small share of the total space budget (e.g., in ...