Corpora: Summary: Literature on collocations

Pascual Cantos (pcantos@fcu.um.es)
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:56:51 +0200 (MET DST)

Last week, I asked for relevant literature and Web sites on:

- Collocations
- Collocational data and
- Relevant Collocational-data extraction (statistical methods, etc.)

First of all, ¡muchísmas gracias a todos!

I enclose a summary of all the references received so far.

Thanks a million!

Pascual

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Thanks to the people below, who answered my S.O.S.:

Geoffrey Sampson
Ton van der Wouden
René Schneider
Sylviane Granger
Oliver Mason
Peter Howarth
Jennifer Lai Bromley
Yves Forkl

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Bibliography (the layout and format is not very orthodox, though
'understandable'):

- van der Wouden, Ton Negative Contexts. Collocation, polarity and
multiple negation, Routledge, London and New York, 1997. Volume 1
of Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics, ISBN 0-415-13849-3

- Kita, K. et al., "Automatically extracting
collocations ... ", in the Proceedings of TALC94, ed. by A. Wilson &
A. McEnery, Unit for Computer Research on the English Language,
University of Lancaster, 1994.

- John R. Firth. Modes of meaning. In J.R. Firth: Papers in
Linguistics, pages 190-215, London, 1957. Oxford University Press (from a
historical point of view Firth's work on collocation might still be of
interest)

- Douglas Biber. Co-occurence patterns among collocations: a tool
for corpus-based lexical knowledge acquisition. Computational
Linguistics, 19(3):549-556, 1993. (current State of the Art)

- Frank Smadja. Retrieving collocations from text. Computational
Linguistics, 19(1):143-177, 1993.(current State of the Art)

- Frank Smadja. Macrocoding the lexicon with co-occurrence
knowledge. In U. Zernik, editor, Lexical Acquisition: Exploiting
On-Line Resources to Build a Lexicon, pages 165-189. Lawrence
Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, 1991. (current State of the Art)

- A.P. Cowie (ed.) Phraseology. Theory, Analysis and Applications. Clarendon
Press, Oxford, 1998. ISBN 0-19-829425-5

- R. Moon, Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English. Clarendon Press, Oxford,
1998. ISBN 0-19-823614-X

- John Sinclair (1991) Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, Oxford University
Press (starter)

- Michael Stubbs (1996) Text and Corpus Analysis, Blackwell (starter)

- On relevant Collocational-data extraction (statistical methods, etc.), see
work by Church et.al

- Sinclair/Mason/Balland Barnbrook, "Language Independent Statistical
Software for Corpus
Exploration". Computers and the Humanities 31: 229-255

- J. McH. Sinclair, A. P. Cowie, F. J. Hausmann, M. Cop, M. Benson, ...;

- for a formal description: I. Mel'cuk;

- for the term's origins: J. R. Firth, M. A. K. Halliday

- Two articles of Hausmann and Cop about collocations have been
published in Hausmann/Reichmann/Wiegand/Zgusta: "Dictionaries -
International Handbook of Lexicography", Berlin: de Gruyter (3
volumes).

- Corpas Pastor, Gloria: Tratamiento de las colocaciones del tipo
A+S/S+A en diccionarios bilinguës y monolinguës (español-ingles), in:
EURALEX '90 Proceedings. Actas del IV congreso internacional,
Barcelona: Biblograf, 1992, 331-340.

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WEB Sites

- http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~jc-lai/collocations.html

- http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~jc-lai/collocationsdef.html

- http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/euralex/bibweb.html

- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7033/

- http://www.fas.umontreal.ca/LING/olst/

- http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~uli/

- IMS Corpus Workbench
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/CorpusWorkbench/

- DECIDE project (T. Fontenelle, U. Heid, ...)
http://engdep1.philo.ulg.ac.be/decide/

- T. Fontenelle at University of Liège
http://engdep1.philo.ulg.ac.be/fontenelle/thframe.htm

- Select bibliography of papers by Cobuild staff members
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/biblist.html

- Cobuild Home Page (J. McH. Sinclair et al.) - general link
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/index.html

- (Bibliographic notes about F. Smadja, among others)
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~jpiitula/bib/lexicon.html

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Others (people working on these topics, software, etc.)

- Sebastian Hoffman, Zürich University (extracting collocations from the 100
million word
British National Corpus)

- U. Heid (German/French, IMS Stuttgart),

- T. Fontenelle (English/French);

- J. McH. Sinclair, J. Clear and other COBUILD people;

- Smadja's work "Xtract"

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Dr. Pascual Cantos Gómez

Departamento de Filología Inglesa
Universidad de Murcia
c/. Santo Cristo, 1
30071 Murcia

Tel.: (968) 364365; +34 68 364365
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E-mail: pcantos@fcu.um.es