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<Paper uid="P97-1061">
  <Title>Retrieving Collocations by Co-occurrences and Word Order Constraints</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we describe a method for automatically retrieving collocations from large text corpora. This method retrieve collocations in the following stages: 1) extracting strings of characters as units of collocations 2) extracting recurrent combinations of strings in accordance with their word order in a corpus as collocations.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Through the method, various range of collocations, especially domain specific collocations, are retrieved. The method is practical because it uses plain texts without any information dependent on a language such as lexical knowledge and parts of speech.</Paragraph>
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