Transcription of Collocations - Stanford University
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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?
only. In general, both fixed and variable word combinations can be colloca-tions. Indeed, the section on mean and variance looks at the more loosely connected type. 5.1 Frequency Surelythe simplest method forfinding collocations in atext corpus is count-ing. If two words occur together a lot, then that is evidence that they have
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