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??a stiff wind(while eithera strong breezeora strong windis okay), or why we speak ofbroad daylight(but not?bright daylightor??narrow darkness). Collocations are characterized by limitedcompositionality.
rest of this chapter, we will use a stop list that excludes words whose most frequent tag is not a verb, noun or adjective. Exercise 5-1 Add part-of-speech patterns useful for collocation discovery to Table 5.2, including patterns longer than two tags. 2. This search was performed on AltaVista on March 28, 1998.
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