Mike,<div><br></div><div>I've reviewed a few papers proposing more-than-two-word salience stats but I don't think any of them have produced linguistically convincing results.</div><div><br></div><div>In the Sketch Engine we've pursued a couple of other strategies to tackle the issue, see<br>
<ul style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><li><a class="attachment" href="http://trac.sketchengine.co.uk/attachment/wiki/AK/Papers/multiwords.pdf?format=raw" title="Attachment 'multiwords.pdf' in AK/Papers" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,113,186);border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(187,187,187)">Finding Multiwords of More Than Two Words</a><a class="trac-rawlink" href="http://trac.sketchengine.co.uk/raw-attachment/wiki/AK/Papers/multiwords.pdf?format=raw" title="Download" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,113,186);border-bottom-style:none;background-image:url(http://trac.sketchengine.co.uk/chrome/common/download.png);padding-right:16px"></a><ul>
<li>Adam Kilgarriff, Pavel Rychly, Vojtech Kovar, Vit Baisa</li><li>in: <em>Proc. EURALEX </em>, Oslo, August. <a class="attachment" href="http://trac.sketchengine.co.uk/attachment/wiki/AK/Papers/Multiwds_ELX.pptx?format=raw" title="Attachment 'Multiwds_ELX.pptx' in AK/Papers" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,113,186);border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(187,187,187)">ppt</a><a class="trac-rawlink" href="http://trac.sketchengine.co.uk/raw-attachment/wiki/AK/Papers/Multiwds_ELX.pptx?format=raw" title="Download" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,113,186);border-bottom-style:none;background-image:url(http://trac.sketchengine.co.uk/chrome/common/download.png);padding-right:16px"></a></li>
</ul></li></ul><div class="gmail_quote">Best</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Adam</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 May 2013 18:14, Mike Scott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@lexically.net" target="_blank">mike@lexically.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I have had a query about MI (or any other similar statistic)
involving more than two elements:<br>
<br>
<span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">"I don't know how
to calculate the Mutual Information (MI) for these 4-word lexical
bundles, it seems I can only find the MI score for 2-word
collocations."</span><br>
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Can anyone advise please?<br>
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Cheers -- Mike<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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