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  <Title>Collocation Extraction Based on Modifiability Statistics</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We introduce a new, linguistically grounded measure of collocativity based on the property of limited modifiability and test it on German PP-verb combinations. We show that our measure not only significantly outperforms the standard lexical association measures typically employed for collocation extraction, but also yields a valuable by-product for the creation of collocation databases, viz. possible structural and lexical attributes. Our approach is language-, structure-, and domain-independent because it only requires some shallow syntactic analysis (e.g., a POS-tagger and a phrase chunker).</Paragraph>
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