[Corpora-List] intuitions about co-occurrence

[John F Sowa]

On 4/25/2013 12:49 PM, Oakey, David [ENGL] wrote:
> neither native speakers nor learners produce word combinations
> on the basis of their frequency and probability of co-occurrence

The mental lexicon is definitely *not* organized by a token's
spelling or its frequency of occurrence.

Roget's Thesaurus and WordNet are probably closer, and they're
very useful for computational linguistics.

A book that may be closer to the organization of the mental
lexicon than Roget's Thesaurus is

    McArthur, Tom (1981) Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English,
    Harlow: Longman.

This book was designed for students who are learning English as
a second language, and the reviewers who are in that category
give it 5 stars at Amazon.com.  Unfortunately, it's out of
print.

Does anyone know whether that book is or could be made available
for computational purposes?  Or anything similar to it?

John Sowa

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