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June 14, 2007

Collocation, Collocate

collocations, collocates (noun) - frequently used word combinations

a collocation of x, a collocate of x (noun) - a word used frequently with word x

collocate, collocates with (verb)

collocates with
is a collocation of
is a collocate of

a collocation dictionary
a collocation list
a collocation database
a collocation program
a domain specific collocation
a low frequency collocation
a high frequency collocation
awareness of collocations
collocation extraction
collocation visualization
multi-word collocation
word collocation
three-word collocation


Examples sentences:

* "Open" is not a collocate of "light" or "computer."

* The phrase "turn on the light" is a collocation.

* "Bright" collocates with "light" giving "bright light."

* "Loud" does not collocate with "light."

* The word was included in the collocation list for the word.

* Awareness of collocations in a language builds fluency in the language.

* The collocation program has been tested on a variety of corpora.

* The output from the program was a collocation dictionary with vocabulary and example sentences in a specialised domain.

* Domain-specific collocation dictionaries are often more useful than general collocation dictionaries.

* The headwords of the collocation dictionary are listed in alphabetical order.

* New word collocations appear more frequently in a language than new words do.

* Text recognition using word collocation is a research area in computational linguistics.

* This software is a tool for multi-word collocation extraction and visualization.

* This three-word collocation is not found elsewhere in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama!

* The word collocation data for each word is stored in a database.

* "In theory, a collocation dictionary created from a large and general corpus should be sufficiently comprehensive to aid the recognition of text taken from almost any domain." (Source)

* "Problems of collocation and connotation are usually only discovered by unwittingly using the words in inappropriate contexts." (Source)

* "Turn on the light" uses the correct collocate "turn on," worth stressing in Thailand where the mistake "open the light" is very common.

* "Put away the dish" uses the correct collocate, not "keep the dish."


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