[Corpora-List] Collocations & BNC

[Mark Davies]

I'm not sure if this is what you're asking for, but with the architecture and interface that we have for BYU-BNC (our interface to the BNC), the TIME Corpus (100m words, 1920s-2000s),  and the new 360 million word BYU Corpus of American English, you can find both frequency and calculate the highest-ranked collocates (via MI) -- as well as ranking by MI and limiting by frequency.

In addition, with one simple query you can compare collocates in different sections of the corpus (e.g. spoken/written, engineering/academic, or 1920-1930s/1990s-2000s), or between contrasting words (e.g. small/little, rob/steal, men/women, Democrats/Republicans).

http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc : BYU-BNC
http://corpus.byu.edu/time : Time Corpus
http://www.americancorpus.org : BYU Corpus of American English

Best,

Mark Davies

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Mark Davies
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Brigham Young University
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-----Original Message-----
From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of Bob Parks
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 8:33 AM
To: corpora at hd.uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] Collocations & BNC

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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