Find collocations
To find collocations of a word, you first make a search for that word and then use the
collocation function.
- Make a search for a word using whichever search option you prefer and download at least one hit (note that you can get collocations for all hits even if you only download one hit at this stage).
- Open the collocation function by clicking on the Collocations icon or by choosing Collocation from the Query menu. The collocations window opens.
- To find collocations with all matches to your query, make sure the tick-box in front of Downloads only is clear and simply click on the calculate button. (If you want collocations for downloaded hits only, tick the box in front of Downloads only).
- You can control the way the collocations are calculated by using the options in
the right-hand Controls part of the collocation window (if you cannot
see a right-hand part of the collocation window, tick the box in front of
Controls at the bottom right of the collocation window). The options
are:
- Download
- This gives you the option to see all collocates, just the best ones or just the ones whose score exceeds a certain threshold.
- Lemmata
- You can choose which lemmatisation scheme the words are grouped under and you can also see how a word has been lemmatised.
- Window
- Use this to select the size of the window (words to the left and right of your item) searched for collocates.
- Score
- Choose scoring algorithm used to calculate the strength of the collocation. You can also compare different scores for individual words.
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