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Collocation:Applications and Implications
No full textAll aspects of the concept of collocation – the phenomenon whereby words naturally tend to occur in the company of a restricted set of other words – are covered in this book. It deals in detail with the history of the word collocation, the concepts associated with it and its use in a linguistic context. The authors show the practical means by which the collocational behaviour of words can be explored using illustrative computer programs and examine applications in teaching, lexicography and natural language processing that use collocation in formation. The book investigates the place that collocation occupies in theories of language and provides a thoroughly comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the current position of collocation in language studies and applied linguistics
A Sense of Belonging: Possessives in Dictionary Definitions
No full textThis paper explores the use of possessives within dictionary definitions, based on a computational analysis of the full sentence definitions of the Collins Cobuild range. The Cobuild approach to definitions is compared to that of other more conventional dictionaries, and their use in the definitions is considered in the light of Sinclair’s classification of adjective functions into ‘selective’ and ‘focussing’. The realization of these and other functions is explored through an examination of the headwords involved. Finally, the implications of the findings for users of dictionaries are assessed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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