SCIE - noun-noun collocations

kalayzich commented on the list scie---noun-noun-collocations

Im really sorry to inform you that "amino acid" is a noun but

amino functions as an adjective ie what type of acid

So Im not convinced of your noun noun approach but Im open to correction.You seem to be hellbent on being number one lister

here.What is the purpose of your investigation?

Okay lets go down the list, bighorn sheep,not really science to me

there.Personally I cant think of all the species

So you are stealing/borrowing/kidnapping to increase your

primacy as a word lister,at least you acknowledged your source

and didnt take the 10,000 on offer.

October 29, 2012

gulyasrobi commented on the list scie---noun-noun-collocations

Dear kalayzich,

Thank you for your comments and corrections.

Answering your question:

The purpose of my investigation is having fun with a language I learn and love. Undersanding why certain nouns are more active collocates than others. In other cases: collecting words and collocations that I find useful in my work as an interpreter (for interpreters collocations are a lot more interesting than words, because each collocation represents a neuronal connection).

No, vocabgrabber wasn't my source, only the tool with which I sorted a big collection (mostly hand-picked) of noun-noun collocations that I had put together over the years. Oy yes, another motivation: I love text-mining as a pastime (I am crazy). However strange it might sound to you: I don't give a (what's the proper word here?) whether I am first or last on this list. That's the point I have always wanted to make. I just like Wordnik and playing around. Maybe too much for my health, but it has little to do with adrenalin. Hope you liked my reply.

: -)

October 29, 2012

gulyasrobi commented on the list scie---noun-noun-collocations

Here is a word cloud of about 200 nouns that have proved to be the most productive constituents of noun-noun collocations. The bigger the print the more frequently the noun enters into collocational relationship with others. With these 200 nouns you can compose more than 10000 valid collocations. How can I tell? Because they were derived from more than 10000 noun-noun collocations: http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/5929881/Most_active_noun-noun_collocates

October 29, 2012

gulyasrobi commented on the list scie---noun-noun-collocations

In the age of artificial intelligence and the semantic web, collocations sorted by thematic categories are useful contributions to people who work in the business of CAT and strive to make machine translation tools based on semantically annotated statistical information work better.

October 29, 2012

kalayzich commented on the list scie---noun-noun-collocations

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue xii. 535 All languages use greater freedom of collocation in poetry than in prose.

October 29, 2012