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  <Title>Methods for the Qualitative Evaluation of Lexical Association Measures</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper presents methods for a qualitative, unbiased comparison of lexical association measures and the results we have obtained for adjective-noun pairs and preposition-noun-verb triples extracted from German corpora. In our approach, we compare the entire list of candidates, sorted according to the particular measures, to a reference set of manually identified &amp;quot;true positives&amp;quot;. We also show how estimates for the very large number of hapaxlegomena and double occurrences can be inferred from random samples.</Paragraph>
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