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Collocations - Stanford University

DRAFT!c January 7, 1999 Christopher Manning & Hinrich Sch an expression consisting of two or more words thatcorrespond to some conventional way of saying things. Or in the wordsof Firth (1957: 181): Collocations of a given word are statements of thehabitual or customary places of that word. Collocations include nounphrases likestrong teaandweapons of mass destruction, phrasal verbs liketo make up, and other stock phrases likethe rich and powerful. Particularlyinteresting are the subtle and not-easily-explainable patterns of word usagethat native speakers all know: why we saya stiff breezebut not?

phrases”.1 Justeson and Katz (1995b: 17) suggest the patterns in Table 5.2. Each is followed by an example from the text that they use as a test set. In these patterns A refers to an adjective, P to a preposition, and N to a noun. Table 5.3 shows the most highly ranked phrases after applying the filter. The results are surprisingly good.

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