I don't currently have access to the Bank of English, so I can't go find
this. (I'm just an ESL teacher, not a full-time researcher.) I
apologise.
However-- in April this year it was around there somewhere.
I've just had a look at one file I saved (I never did end up working on
collocations in the end), and at the END of the listing of collocates I
found this:
To store this collocation list in a file, enter a filename,
or hit RET to continue without saving.
Filename:
Do you want some help with interpreting the statistics? (y/n). . .
My guess is that that last question is where you go to find the
explanation. You might have to call up a collocates listing, so do
something from a small sub-corpus -- I think my MA advisor had nearly 2
hrs of connect time for 'price', 'pricing' and 'product'.
If not:
I still think my advisor found it when he was calling up a couple sample
collocations
for me, so my guess is that it is very close to where you go to tell the
machine what node word and span you want, because that is where you also
select whether you want MI- or T-score for your index. So you get near
there, you're in the logical place to find this explanation -- I'm
assuming that they would not remove something that is short, sweet and
clear.
If all this fails, let me know, and I'll try to track down Jem Clear and
see if he can help!
BTW -- if someone finds the correct URL, could you please
let the rest of us know? Thanks. I wish I could give more accurate info!
Take care,
Gordon
Tony Berber Sardinha wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I canīt find
>
> > Clear, J 1995, 'COBUILD Bank of English explanation of stats'. Collins
> > COBUILD Collocation Concordancer
>
> on
>
> > http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html
>
> Any other addresses where this might be available?
>
> cheers
> tony.
> -------------------------------------
> Dr Tony Berber Sardinha
> Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
> tony4@uol.com.br
> http://sites.uol.com.br/tony4/homepage.html
> http://homepages.infoseek.com/~corpuslinguistics/homepage.html
-- Gordon Cain Teacher of ESOL TAFE International Education Centre Liverpool (Sydney) Australia gpcain@rivernet.com.au