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Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
Edited by Richard J. Whitt
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 85] 2018
► pp. 41–64

Diachronic collocations, genre, and DiaCollo

| Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

This chapter presents the formal basis for diachronic collocation profiling as implemented in the open-source software tool “DiaCollo” and sketches some potential applications to multi-genre diachronic corpora. Explicitly developed for the efficient extraction, comparison, and interactive visualization of collocations from a diachronic text corpus, DiaCollo is suitable for processing collocation pairs whose association strength depends on extralinguistic features such as the date of occurrence or text genre. By tracking changes in a word’s typical collocates over time, DiaCollo can help to provide a clearer picture of diachronic changes in the word’s usage, especially those related to semantic shift or discourse environment. Use of the flexible DDC search engine back-end allows user queries to make explicit reference to genre and other document-level metadata, thus allowing e.g. independent genre-local profiles or cross-genre comparisons. In addition to traditional static tabular display formats, a web-service plugin also offers a number of intuitive interactive online visualizations for diachronic profile data for immediate inspection.

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Related work
  • 3.Implementation
    • 3.1Overview
    • 3.2Corpus data
    • 3.3Co-occurrence frequencies
      • 3.3.1Native co-occurrence relation
      • 3.3.2Term × document matrix co-occurrence relation
      • 3.3.3DDC co-occurrence relation
    • 3.4Scoring and pruning
    • 3.5Comparisons
    • 3.6Output & visualization
  • 4.Examples
    • 4.1Adjectival attribution: What makes a “man”?
    • 4.2Pronominal adverbs and deictic locality
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 8 November 2018
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