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Corpus Concordance Analysis×Collocation Analysis×
FieldLinguisticsText mining
FamilyProcess / pipelineProcess / pipeline
Year of origin19911990
OriginatorCorpus linguists (John Sinclair; Paul Baker)Church & Hanks
TypeCorpus-based descriptive analysis of word usage in contextStatistical text-mining technique
Seminal sourceBaker, P. (2006). Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. Continuum. ISBN: 9780826477248Church, K.W. & Hanks, P. (1990). Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography. Computational Linguistics, 16(1), 22-29. link ↗
AliasesConcordance Analysis, KWIC Analysis, Keyword-in-Context Analysisword association, collocation extraction, Birliktelik Analizi (Collocation Analysis)
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SummaryCorpus concordance analysis is a core corpus-linguistic technique that retrieves every occurrence of a search word or phrase from a large body of machine-readable text and displays them in keyword-in-context (KWIC) format — the target term aligned in a central column with its surrounding co-text. By reading and sorting these lines, analysts uncover the recurrent patterns, collocations, and meanings of words as they are actually used, grounding linguistic claims in attested evidence rather than introspection.Collocation analysis is a statistical text-mining technique that identifies word pairs or expressions that frequently occur together, using association measures rather than chance co-occurrence. Introduced in the lexicography work of Church and Hanks (1990), it is used for terminology extraction and language analysis, surfacing the multi-word units that carry meaning in a corpus.
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