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From Web n-grams to collocation learning. Shaoqun Wu University of Waikato. heavy smoker. strong smoker powerful tea big rain look book one sex product. strong smoker. heavy rain. read a book. disposable product. What is collocation?.
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From Web n-grams to collocation learning Shaoqun Wu University of Waikato
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What is collocation? Choice of one word conditions the choice of the next, and of the next again John McHardySinclair
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Google n-gram collection word_1 <space> word_2 <space>… word_n <tab> count
Building a Web collocation collection • clean up n-grams, • assign syntactic tags to the words of n-grams, • match tagged n-grams with the syntactic patterns, and • discard ones that occur less than 100 times.
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Evaluation • language learners from the education school 86% vs 67% • myself: diary recording … • and you?
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