[Corpora-List] Collocations & BNC

Mon Mar 31 10:02:02 UTC 2008

"the relationship between collocationality and (what are becoming known as) multi-word expressions?"

I think:
John Sinclair - The search for units of meaning
(orig publ Textus IX 1996; republ as Chapt 2, Trust the Text, Routledge 2004)
is a good place to start...

All topics are potentially corpus-tractable?

Best
Ramesh Krishnamurthy
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Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
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From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of Dr DJ Hatch
Sent: 31 March 2008 10:51
To: Adam Kilgarriff; Chris Butler; corpora at uib.no
Subject: {Disarmed} Re: [Corpora-List] Collocations & BNC

Thanks for that. I was going to complain, but thought it could be a result of my use of Mac OS 10 + Safari. The new link works, perfectly, and the paper looks intriguing. Just as soon as I find the right box and unpack my printer I shall read it in the sun.

But do you also know of anything available on the relationship between collocationality and (what are becoming known as) multi-word expressions? I am aware that Wray wrote on the latter recently, though I yet to get hold of the book. I believe that someone on the list recently proposed a workshop(?) on a corpus-based approach to MWEs, but, of course I've lost the reference.

Oh, by the way: corpus, corpus, corpus.

Thanks again.

DJ Hatch

On 31/3/08 10:59, "Adam Kilgarriff" <adam at lexmasterclass.com> wrote:
All,
I gave a dud link yesterday, apologies.  Should have been
  <http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/Publications/2006-K-ELX-colloc.doc><http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/Publications/2006-K-ELX-colloc.doc>
Collocationality (and how to measure it) 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
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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) MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious: <http://216.239.59.104/Publications/2006-K-ELX-colloc.doc><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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