ITRI-01-12

Adam Kilgarriff and David Tugwell

WORD SKETCH: Extraction and Display of Significant Collocations for Lexicography

Also published in Proc. Collocations workshop, ACL 2001,Toulouse, France: Pp 32-38.

Supported by the EPSRC under Grant M54971

This paper introduces the Word Sketch: a collocation-based resource of proven value for English lexicography. Issues involving the automatic extraction and presentation of salient collocations are discussed. It is further shown how the combination of significant patterns may lead to even greater precision in the identification of collocations.