An electronic dictionary of collocations for European Portuguese: methodology, results and applications

• Autores: Luisa Alice Santos Pereira, Maria Amália Pereira Mendes
• Localización: Proceedings of the Tenth EURALEX International Congress, EURALEX 2002: Copenhagen, Denmark, August 13-17, 2002 / Anna Braasch (ed. lit.), Claus Povlsen (ed. lit.), Vol. 2, 2003, ISBN 87-90708-09-1, págs. 841-849
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper discusses a lexicographic approach to collocations, presenting the methodology, options, results and applications of an electronic Dictionary of Portuguese Collocations (DCP). The methodology underlying the dictionary involves the extraction from a corpus of contemporary Portuguese of lexical associations of pairs of word forms, contiguous or not. The significance of the pairs is statistically measured by the Mutual Information (MI) calculus, as well as by the MI weighted by the frequency of the pair (MIF). Omer issues are discussed: frequency ofthe word forms vs. frequency of the lemmas, the organization ofthe collocations in the dictionary, grammatical patterns as source of lexical information, as well as the splitting ofcollocations into sense-groups.