An Electronic Dictionary of Collocations for European Portuguese: Methodology, Results and Applications

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Author Luisa Alice Santos Pereira, Amália Mendes
Title An Electronic Dictionary of Collocations for European Portuguese: Methodology, Results and Applications
Abstract This paper discusses a lexicographic approach to collocations, presenting the methodology, options, results and applications of an electronic Dictionary of Portuguese Collocations (DCP). The methodology underlying the dictionary involves the extraction from a corpus of contemporary Portuguese of lexical associations of pairs of word forms, contiguous or not. The significance of the pairs is statistically measured by the Mutual Information (MI) calculus, as well as by the MI weighted by the frequency of the pair (MIF). Omer issues are discussed: frequency ofthe word forms vs. frequency of the lemmas, the organization ofthe collocations in the dictionary, grammatical patterns as source of lexical information, as well as the splitting ofcollocations into sense-groups.
Session EuraIex Workshop on Restricted Collocations
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@InProceedings{ELX02-093,
author = {Luisa Alice Santos Pereira, Amália Mendes},
title = {An Electronic Dictionary of Collocations for European Portuguese: Methodology, Results and Applications },
pages = {841-849},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th EURALEX International Congress},
year = {2002},
month = {aug},
date = {13-17},
address = {København, Denmark},
editor = {Anna Braasch and Claus Povlsen},
publisher = {Center for Sprogteknologi},
isbn = {87-90708-09-1},
}
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