Chapter published in:
Computational PhraseologyEdited by Gloria Corpas Pastor and Jean-Pierre Colson
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 24] 2020
► pp. 175–174
Collecting collocations from general and specialised corpora
A comparative analysis
Marie-Claude L’Homme | Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Université de
Montréal
Daphnée Azoulay | Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Université de
Montréal
Collocations are increasingly taken into account in general and
specialised repositories and methodologies to collect them are heavily based
on corpora. However, lexicographers and terminologists use different kinds
of corpora in which combinations are likely to behave according to specific
rules and/or patterns. This contribution presents a comparative analysis of
the collocational behaviour of 15 lexical items found in a general language
corpus and a specialised corpus on the theme of the environment. We
automatically extracted large sets of collocates (three lists of 50
collocates) for each lexical item and from each corpus and analyse different
facets of collocational behaviour: polysemy of lexical items,
characteristics of collocates (overlap, rank and semantic classes of
collocates, etc.). Our aim is to draw the attention of terminologists and
lexicographers to some specific factors affecting the behaviour of
collocations in specialized and general corpora.
Keywords: Collocation, terminology, lexicography, specialised corpus, general corpus, semantic class
Keywords: Collocations, terminologie, lexicographie, corpus spécialisé, corpus général, classe sémantique
Published online: 08 May 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.24.08lho
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.24.08lho
