Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography
Church & Hanks, 1990, Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography (Computational Linguistics)
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1 Meaning and association
- Which Firthian slogan motivates the paper?“You shall know a word by the company it keeps” (Firth 1957): words are classified not only by meaning but by their co-occurrence with other words, e.g. bank with money, loan, robbery vs with river, swim, boat.
- Church & Hanks, 1990, Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography (Computational Linguistics), §1, p. 22
- What did Church and Hanks see as new about studying word company in 1990?Not the idea, which goes back to Firth and to Hornby’s verb patterns (1948), but computational storage and analysis of large corpora, making it possible to test such informal assertions rigorously.
- Church & Hanks, 1990, Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography (Computational Linguistics), §1, p. 22
Source
- Kenneth Ward Church and Patrick Hanks. 1990. Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography. In Computational Linguistics, pp. 22–29. https://aclanthology.org/J90-1003/