Collocation is a key language phenomenon which crucially impacts any text production task and which is exploitable in many text analysis tasks. This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the theoretical and practical work on this topic.

Syntax-Based Collocation Extraction is the first book to offer a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the theoretical and applied work on word collocations. Backed by solid theoretical results, the computational experiments described based on data in four languages provide support for the book's basic argument for using syntax-driven extraction as an alternative to the current cooccurrence-based extraction techniques to efficiently extract collocational data. The work described in Syntax-Based Collocation Extraction focuses on using linguistic tools for corpus-based identification of collocations. It takes advantage of recent advances in parsing to propose a novel deep syntactic analytic collocation extraction that has applicability to a range of important core tasks in Computational Linguistics. The book is useful for anyone interested in computational analysis of texts, collocation phenomena, and multi-word expressions in general.

Comprehensive, balanced, and up-to-date information on a key topic. Sophisticated, large-scale methods based on the emerging syntactic approach are described and evaluated. Open to multilingualism, providing results and discussing examples in English, French, Italian and Spanish. Discussion of theoretical issues is combined with illustrations of practical implementations.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. On Collocations.- 3. Survey of Extraction Methods.- 4. Syntax-Based Extraction.- 5. Extensions.- 6. Conclusion.- References.- A. List of Collocation Dictionaries.- B. List of Collocation Definitions.- C. Association Measures Mathematical Notes.- D. Monolingual Evaluation (Experiment 1).- E. Cross-lingual Evaluation (Experiment 2).- Output Comparison.- Subject index.