The Ngram Statistics Package (Text::NSP) is freely available open-source software that identifies ngrams, collocations and word associations in text. It is implemented in Perl and takes advantage of regular expressions to provide very flexible tokenization and to allow for the identification of non-adjacent ngrams. It includes a wide range of measures of association that can be used to identify...

In research on collocations published in English we encounter, albeit rarely, the use of notion “metaphorical collocations”. It is interesting to note that seldom if ever are metaphorical defined any way these studies, suggesting researchers find term self-explanatory. However, seeing an exciting area yet draw attention from wider community researchers, aim this paper analyze current understand...

the mental association and the innovation of lingual and artistic relations on two syntagmatic and paradigmatic axis results in collocation in a literary speech. in the ordinary and formal language collocation is the necessary condition for a speech to be considered meaningful and coherent, but in literary language, there is a variety of aesthetic creativities and innovations that leads to the ...

This chapter describes a class of word groups that lies between idioms and free word combinations. Idiomatic expressions are those in which the semantics of the whole cannot be deduced from the meanings of the individual constituents. Free word combinations have the properties that each of the words can be replaced by another without seriously modifying the overall meaning of the composite unit...

We argue that lexical association measures (AMs) should be evaluated against a reference set of collocations manually extracted from the full candidate data, and that the notion of collocation needs to be precisely defined so that human collocativity judgments and experimental results are reproducible. We show that identification results achieved by particular AMs do not crucially depend on tex...

There is a certain consensus on some defining features of collocations (they are frequent, recurrent, conventional, institutionalized, etc.), but there is not much agreement on other characteristics, for example whether or not they constitute binary lexical relations, and, crucially, whether they are arbitrary, and must be stipulated, or should instead be deduced or inferred. I will argue that ...

Malapropisms are real-word errors that lead to syntactically correct but semantically implausible text. We report an experiment on detection and correction of Spanish malapropisms. Malapropos words semantically destroy collocations (syntactically connected word pairs) they are in. Thus we detect possible malapropisms as words that do not form semantically plausible collocations with neighboring...

Fuzzy approach deals with the linguistic properties of elements such as beauty, coldness, hotness etc. Collocations are linguistically motivated. Decision of word combination for being collocation is a linguistic term as merely co-occurrence of word combinations does not signify the presence of collocation. Thus collocation extraction can be made possible by looking its linguistic aspect. In th...

The following study presents a collocation extraction approach based on clustering technique. This study uses a combination of several classical measures which cover all aspects of a given corpus . It suggests separating bigrams found in the corpus in several disjoint groups according to the probability of presence of collocations. This will allow excluding groups where the presence of collocat...

The paper aims at serving two goals. Firstly, attention will be drawn to a class of collocations that, to our knowledge at least, has gone unnoticed so far. Secondly, it will be argued that brute force techniques as they are employed by certain automated collocation search strategies using a quantitative technique plus a mechanism to filter out unwanted combinations is a guaranteed way to miss ...