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  <Title>Acquiring Collocations for Lexical Choice between Near-Synonyms</Title>
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Acknowledgments
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We thank Gerald Penn, Olga Vechtomova, and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on previous drafts of this paper. We thank Eric Joanis and Tristan Miller for helping with the judging task. Our work is financially supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the University of Toronto.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Appendix The first 10 collocations selected by each measure are presented below. Note that some of the measures rank many collocations equally at rank 1: MI 358 collocations; LL one collocation; kh2 828 collocations; Dice 828 collocations; and Fisher 435,000 collocations (when the measure is computed with a precision of 10 digits -- higher precision is recommended, but the computation time becomes a problem). The rest of the columns are: the rank assigned by the measure, the value of the measure, the frequency of the collocation in BNC, the frequency of the first word in the first position in bigrams, and the frequency of the second word in the second position in bigrams.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Some of the collocations ranked 1 by MI:</Paragraph>
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