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Skilled users of the language can produce effects such as humor by varying the normal patterns of collocation. This approach is popular with poets, journalists and advertisers. Collocations may seem natural to native writers and speakers, but are not obvious to non-native speakers.
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In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology , a collocation is a type of compositional phraseme , meaning that it can be understood from the words that make it up.
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Collocation extraction is the task of using a computer to extract collocations automatically from a corpus. The traditional method of performing collocation extraction is to find a formula based on the statistical quantities of those words to calculate a score associated to every word pairs.
In linguistic morphology, collocational restriction is the way some words have special meanings in specific two-word phrases. For example the adjective "dry" only means "not sweet" in combination with the noun "wine".
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