Process / pipeline
Collocation Analysis — Word Association
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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Sources
- Church, K.W. & Hanks, P. (1990). Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography. Computational Linguistics, 16(1), 22-29. link ↗
- Manning, C.D. & Schütze, H. (1999). Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. MIT Press. ISBN: 9780262133609