>
> Hi,
>
> I am searching for a program which extracts lexical collocations
> and lexical compounds from text. Preferably free, but I am also interested
> in information about available commercial programs. Ideally, such a
> program would associate a probability of indeed being such a collocation
> to extracted items, thus producing an ordered list of potential candidates.
>
> I am doing research on mathematical texts and mathematical idiom; I would
> be happy to exchange results and have discussions on this topic with
> people who are interested.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Stijn van Dongen
> stijnvd@cwi.nl
>
There are several collocational analysis tools. The ones I know of include:
1. Xtract by Frank Smadja at Columbia University (Free. runs on UNIX)
2. CobuildDirect at Birmingham (50 pounds/month. need telnet access)
3. TACT at University of Toronto (free? uses z-scores to find collocations)
4. The DECIDE Project at University of Stuttgart also has several
collocational analysis tools.
I list these tools on my Collocations Homepage at
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/students/jc-lai/Fall95/collocations.html
Follow the link to "Resources for Researchers".
Best of luck!
Jennifer Lai