[Corpora-List] Collocations & BNC

Adam Kilgarriff adam at lexmasterclass.com
Mon Mar 31 08:59:51 UTC 2008


All,
I gave a dud link yesterday, apologies.  Should have been

Collocationality (and how to measure
it)<http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/Publications/2006-K-ELX-colloc.doc>
*Proc. Euralex.*  Torino, Italy

Adam
http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/publications.htm


On 31/03/2008, Chris Butler <csblists at telefonica.net> wrote:
>
>  Adam, the link to your paper on collocationality seems to be broken.
> Best wishes,
> Chris Butler, Honorary Professor, Swansea University
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Adam Kilgarriff <adam at lexmasterclass.com>
> *To:* Bob Parks <bobp at clarityconnect.com>
> *Cc:* corpora at hd.uib.no
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:51 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Corpora-List] Collocations & BNC
>
>
> Bob,
>
> the problem is, it is not clear how to measure "degree of collocation"
> (or, worse, "the degree to which it is [they are??] bound").  I proposed a
> method for the first task in  *Collocationality* (and how to measure it)<http://216.239.59.104/Publications/2006-K-ELX-colloc.doc>
> *Proc. Euralex 2006.*  Torino, Italy.
>
> And of course, the measure(s) you want all depend in what you want it/them
> for,
>
> Best
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> On 30/03/2008, Bob Parks <bobp at clarityconnect.com> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings:
> > Does anyone know of a ranked list of words measuring both word
> > frequency and degree of collocation ....  In other words, a list that
> > ranks words in terms of the frequency with which they appear in text
> > (e.g. BNC), and also the frequency with which they appear with other
> > words, and factoring in the degree to which the collocation is bound?
> > Thanks,
> > Bob
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