Abstract
This paper presents the process of identifying recurrent multi-word expressions (i.e. lexical bundles) relevant for a writing-aid of academic texts in Spanish. It also proposes a repertory of discourse functions that enables the classification of the candidate word-strings as well as their onomasiological retrieval. This classification into discourse functions is also key in the process of selecting candidates, as those that do not fit in any function will predictably be of little interest in the context of the mentioned writing aid. Through the examination of the resulting data, the study explores the correlation between candidate selection by lexicographers and several association measures proposed in the literature to obtain high-quality lexical bundles, with a view to assess the feasibility of automating this process.
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The corpus was tokenized with Freeling [16].
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In Biber et al. [3] they are called “stance” and “referential expressions” and “discourse organizers”, to which a fourth category of “special conversational” functions is added.
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For the sake of brevity, we do not give all the names of this group of functions.
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A sample of the most frequent bundles selected can be seen in the Appendix, Table 5. For the sake of space, we only give the 35 most frequent ones.
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For this, we used R’s PRROC package [11].
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Supported by Xunta de Galicia, through grant ED481D 2017/009, MINECO, through grant IJCI-2016-29598 and project FFI2016-78299-P, and by a 2017 Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators (BBVA Foundation).
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García Salido, M., Garcia, M., Alonso-Ramos, M. (2019). Identifying Lexical Bundles for an Academic Writing Assistant in Spanish. In: Corpas Pastor, G., Mitkov, R. (eds) Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology. EUROPHRAS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11755. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30135-4_11
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