The utilization of statistical methods in the description of non-verbal collocations Cover Image

Využití statistických metod při popisu neverbálních kolokací
The utilization of statistical methods in the description of non-verbal collocations

Author(s): Renata Blatná
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český

Summary/Abstract: This article investigates the statistic function mutual information (MI-score) as applied to various types of lexical combinations, such as multi-word proper names, multi-word terms, idioms and systemic and textual collocations. As a basis for comparison, combinations of the following parts of speech were considered: group A – noun+noun, group B – adjective+adjective, group C – adverb+adverb, group D – adjective+adverb, group E – adjective+adverb, group F – preposition+noun and group G – noun+preposition. MI-scores with values of 15–23 highlight different types of lexical collocations: proper names in group A, terms in group B, idioms in group C, terms in group D and terms in group E. MI-scores with values of 7.0–7.1 relate mostly to systemic or textual collocations. Prepositional collocations are evaluated in the range of the MI-scores 17.5–7.0. The most typical collocations are systemic-textual collocations for group F and multi-word proper names for group G.

  • Issue Year: 65/2004
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 24-52
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Czech
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