For a printed reference:
Stubbs, M. (1995). Collocations and semantic profiles: On the cause of trouble
with quantitative studies. *Functions of Language*, *2*(2), 23-56.
cheers
tony.
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Dr Tony Berber Sardinha
Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
tony4@uol.com.br
http://sites.uol.com.br/tony4/homepage.html
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-----Mensagem Original-----
De: Przemyslaw Kaszubski <przemka@main.amu.edu.pl>
Para: <CORPORA@HD.UIB.NO>
Enviada em: Quarta-feira, 8 de Dezembro de 1999 15:00
Assunto: Corpora: T-score in collocational analysis
> Regards to to all the subscribers,
>
> Two questions:
>
> 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)
> the use of the t-score statistic in collocation retrieval? I mean the
> one used by Cobuild. How does the formula work? I am familiar with
> MI and Z-scores but the t-score seems to be
> in use only in the CobuildDirect service.
>
> 2. Do you know of corpus analysis
> packages available for researchers that employ this t-score?
>
> 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
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