collocation
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Linguists call it collocation: the likelihood of two words occurring together.
From The Guardian
It’s a work of journalism that never felt like journalism, a collocation of short quotes, a book that’s both joyful and angry, a book to get lost in.
From Los Angeles Times
Notably, the script used to analyze the texts relied on modified versions of four of the Natural Language Toolkit’s prepackaged modules: the word tokenizer, part of speech tagger, WordNetLemmatizer, and collocation finder.
From Scientific American
Meanwhile, in California… Evernote Corporation has been growing its share of the “outboard brain” online collocation and storage market since its launch in 2008.
From Forbes
Although there was never a law against women serving in ground combat, the “intent of the law” was to prohibit it, so the collocation rules were made.
From Time
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
