Corpora: T-score in collocational analysis

Przemyslaw Kaszubski (przemka@main.amu.edu.pl)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 17:00:21 CET

<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>Regards to to all the subscribers,

Two questions:

</color>1. Can anyone explain (or point to a Web source or otherwise
easily available source apart from the Church, K.W,, W. Gale, P.
Hanks & D. Hindle "Using Statistics in

Lexical Analysis" in <<italic>Lexical Acquisition: Using On-Line

Resources to Build a Lexicon<</italic>. Ed. Uri Zernik. Hillsdale:

Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991)

<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>the use of the t-score statistic in collocation retrieval? I mean the

one used by Cobuild. H</color>ow does the formula <color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>work? I am familiar with

MI and Z-scores but the t-score seems to be

in use only in the CobuildDirect service.

</color>2. Do you know of corpus analysis

<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param> packages available for researchers that employ this t-score?

</color>I do small corpus research and I am basically after a tool with a
statistic that does not favour rare words as much as the MI does.
So far TACT's z-scores seem the best option.

Przemek Kaszubski<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>

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