Collocation

Collocation

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Rita m.s

Colocation (Disambiguation)

colocation is a sequence of words or terms that cooccur more often than

 would be expected by chance. In phraseology, collocation is a sub-type of

phraseme.

An example  of a phraseologycal collocation, as pripounded by michael 

holliday, is the expression strong tea.

While the same meaning ciuld be comvyed by the roughly equivalent

*Powerful tea, this expression is considered in correct by english speakers.

Conversely, the responding expressions for computer, powerful computers 

is preferred over *strong computers. Phraseplogical collocation shouls not

be confused with idioms, where meaning is derived, whereas collocations 

are mostly compositional.

There are about six main types of collocations : adjective + noun, noun + 

noun (such as collectives noun ), verb + noun , adverb + adjective, verbs+

 prepositional phrase ( phrasal verbs), and verb + adverb.

Collocation extraction is a taskvthat exyracts collocatoons automatically

from a corpus , using computational linguistics.

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