CollocationDetection
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Jump to navigationJump to searchWikipedia defines collocation detection as
- Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance.
This often means the detection of interesting multiword expressions with non-compositional semantic content. For example: names, turns of phrase, etc.
Links
- Wikipedia: Collocation
- LingPipe tutorial: Interesting Phrases
- and the related chapter in Manning and Schuetze, FSNLP, 1999 is great on this.