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Please see
<a href="http://torvald.aksis.uib.no/corpora/1999-4/0146.html" eudora="autourl">
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</a>If I have understood correctly, the MI score tells you about the
'strength of association'<br>
(but if the corpus frequency figures for either item are very low, then
you may not have much<br>
<u>confidence </u>in the association; eg extreme case: X and Y occur only
once each in the corpus, <br>
but in that one occurrence, they are adjacent to each other); t-score
takes into account the <br>
corpus frequency of the items, so gives you a'confidence rating' in the
association...<br><br>
I suspect that the corpus frequencies for ['play' and 'role] and ['fight'
and 'battle'] would also have to be<br>
similar for you to make the claim that they have a similar overall
collocational relationship...<br><br>
Hope this helps<br>
Ramesh<br><br>
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At 16:14 14/12/2005, Helene Stengers wrote:<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Dear list,<br><br>
Imagine you have called up collocation listings for the node word lemmas
"play" and "fight". In both lists, the association
with for example the collocates "role" and
"battle" has the exactly the same MI / t score. Can I
assume that both collocations, i.e. "play a role" and
"fight a battle" have the same "collocational
strength", or is that a wrong assumption?<br><br>
Thanks,</font><font size=2><br>
Helene</blockquote>
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