We review lexical Association Measures (AMs) that have been employed by past work in extracting multiword expressions. Our work contributes to the understanding of these AMs by categorizing them into two groups and suggesting the use of rank equivalence to group AMs with the same ranking performance. We also examine how existing AMs can be adapted to better rank English verb particle constructi...

This paper considers advantages of measures of confirmation or evidential support in the context of interestingness of association rules. In particular, it is argued that the way in which they characterize positive/negative association has advantages over other measures such as null-invariant measures. Several properties are reviewed and proposed as requirements for an adequate confirmation mea...

the present article studies one of the new methods of story narration which reviews the constant stream of thoughts and feelings inside the minds of the characters of the story. one of the basic objectives of applying this technique is having freedom in the regular elements of theme and plot. instead of codes the story is based on tangible and touchable realities so that the reader will be able...