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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article aims to undertake an analysis based on two entries (bread and egg) in three dictionaries of the Aurelio line (Mini Aurelio, Aurelio Junior and Aurelio), in order to verify how Idioms are addressed in each ...

Image categorization by means of bag of visual words has received increasing attention by the image processing and vision communities in the last years. In these approaches, each image is represented by invariant points ...

The present study describes the beliefs and attitudes which undergird the Chilean priest Camilo Ortuzar's notions of correct and incorrect language use in his Diccionario manual de locuciones viciosos (1893), and how those ...