Identifying Metadata-Specific Collocations in Text Corpora

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Identifying Metadata-Specific Collocations in Text Corpora

HERMAN, Ondřej, Miloš JAKUBÍČEK and Vojtěch KOVÁŘ

Basic information

Original name

Identifying Metadata-Specific Collocations in Text Corpora

Authors

HERMAN, Ondřej (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Miloš JAKUBÍČEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Vojtěch KOVÁŘ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Brno, Electronic lexicography in the 21st century. Proceedings of the eLex 2021 conference, p. 418-428, 11 pp. 2021

Publisher

Lexical Computing CZ s.r.o.

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Proceedings paper

Field of Study

10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

Publication form

electronic version available online

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Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

ISSN

Keywords in English

collocations; corpus; meta-data; text types; word sketch

Abstract

V originále

Statistical corpus analysis of collocations is one of the important steps in creating a dictionary entry: collocations may distinguish senses, describe typical phrasemes and idioms and outline the whole picture of a word's behaviour. However, some collocations are domain-specific, typical only in particular contexts, and thus far there has been no easy way to distinguish “general” collocations from those that are predominantly typical in particular domains. In this paper, we present a tool which allows lexicographers to see typical domains in which a particular collocation occurs. We introduce a statistical procedure based on corpus metadata to identify domain-specific collocations in an intuitive way, and we also present a user interface connected to the word sketch feature of the Sketch Engine corpus interface (Kilgarriff et al., 2014a). The new feature can be used in the manual inspection of collocation lists, as well as when using the API or in a semi-automatic post-editing scenario of building a dictionary.

Links

LM2018101, research and development project

Name: Digitální výzkumná infrastruktura pro jazykové technologie, umění a humanitní vědy (Acronym: LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR

Citovat

HERMAN, Ondřej, Miloš JAKUBÍČEK and Vojtěch KOVÁŘ. Identifying Metadata-Specific Collocations in Text Corpora. Online. In Kosem, Iztok; Cukr, Michal; Jakubíček, Miloš; Kallas, Jelena; Krek, Simon; Tiberius, Carole. Electronic lexicography in the 21st century. Proceedings of the eLex 2021 conference. Brno: Lexical Computing CZ s.r.o., 2021, p. 418-428. ISSN 2533-5626.

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HERMAN, Ondřej, Miloš JAKUBÍČEK and Vojtěch KOVÁŘ. Identifying Metadata-Specific Collocations in Text Corpora. Online. In Kosem, Iztok; Cukr, Michal; Jakubíček, Miloš; Kallas, Jelena; Krek, Simon; Tiberius, Carole. \textit{Electronic lexicography in the 21st century. Proceedings of the eLex 2021 conference}. Brno: Lexical Computing CZ s.r.o., 2021, p.~418-428. ISSN~2533-5626.

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