Automatic identification of two-word terms in English text.

The study compares the effectiveness of two statistical formulae, mutual information and contextual information formulae, for identifying collocations or two-word terms in English text. A modified version of the contextual information formula was found to perform better than mutual information.

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Main Author: Heng, Siok Tian.
Other Authors: Khoo, Christopher Soo Guan
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1963
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University