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
Subjects:	DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Technologies
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1963
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Institution:	Nanyang Technological University

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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-19632019-12-10T13:31:48Z Automatic identification of two-word terms in English text. Heng, Siok Tian. Khoo, Christopher Soo Guan Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Technologies 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. Master of Science (Information Studies) 2008-09-10T08:37:43Z 2008-09-10T08:37:43Z 2002 2002 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1963 Nanyang Technological University application/pdf
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description	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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author	Heng, Siok Tian.
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title	Automatic identification of two-word terms in English text.
title_short	Automatic identification of two-word terms in English text.
title_full	Automatic identification of two-word terms in English text.
title_fullStr	Automatic identification of two-word terms in English text.
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Automatic identification of two-word terms in English text.

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