[Lexicog] Interesting lexical discoveries

[Christopher Brewster]

Didn't COBUILD publish a corpus based collocations dictionary?


Christopher Brewster

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Hanks [mailto:hanks at bbaw.de]
> Sent: 03 February 2004 15:50
> To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Lexicog] Interesting lexical discoveries
>
>
> Apologies.  I seem to have posted a blank message.
> Here's what I meant to send:
>
> > I would think that introspection can be used in collocation
> research
> > in
> two
> > ways: thinking up examples, and figuring out the relations
> among given
> > examples.  As you say, the former is subject to omission.  But I
> > suspect that the latter is downright necessary.
>
> Yes, introspection is necessary to interpret data.  My point
> is that it should not be used to invent data.
>
> > There's an interesting comment on page 185 of Manning and Schutze's
> > Foundations of Statistical NLP:
> >
> >     It is instructive to look at the types of collocations
> >     that a purely linguistic analysis of text will discover
> >     if plenty of time and person power is available so
> >     that the limitations of statistical analysis and computer
> >     technology need be of no concern.
> >
> > They then show some collocation results from the BBI Combinatory
> Dictionary
> > of English, and further comment:
> >
> >     Naturally, the quality of the collocations is also
> >     higher than computer-generated lists -- as we
> >     would expect from a manually produced
> >     compilation. [!]
>
> Manning and Schuetze are great BUT  here they are off the
> wall, up the creek, in the pooh. This is nothing more than
> polite mouthing.  How do they judge "quality" of
> collocations?  To the best of my knowledge and belief, BBI is
> a pre-corpus dictionary. A serious comparison of BBI's (mainly
> intuition-based)
> collocations with corpus data would be a worthwhile project
> for someone.
>
> > On pg. 187, they mention work by Church et al on "a program of
> computational
> > lexicography that combines corpus evidence, computational
> methods and
> human
> > judgement to build more comprehensive dictionaries that
> better reflect
> > actual language use."
>
> Speaking as one of the "al", I'd say that just about
> summarizes it correctly.
>
>
> Patrick
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