combine words to make a new word generator

Universal word sketches are available for corpora without tagging and/or lemmatization, see below. The word sketch works with a POS-tagged and lemmatized corpus. Exceptions can exist if the collocation is so extremely frequent and that it beats all its competitors. The number of different competing collocates may be small but the frequency of each of them is extremely high which produces lots of competition for the collocate in question.Īs a result, it is quite common that the most common and frequent words ( new, go, be, small, very ) hardly ever receive high scores as collocates because they are used so often in combination with so many other words that there is lots of competition.The number of different competing collocates is very high.The number of different competing collocates may be high but the frequency of each of them is low so the total stays low.Ī very low score means that there is extreme competition from other collocates for either of these reasons or their combination:.The number of different competing collocates is very small.In other words, the competitors are not frequent for either of these reasons or their combination: The node (the search word, the keyword) does not often combine with other collocates. The view options allow sorting by frequency if needed.Ī very high score of the collocate means that there is little competition from other collocates. The main purpose of the score is to sort the collocates by their typicality or strength, not to decide whether a collocation is weak or strong. It is not possible to set a universal threshold between weak and strong collocations because each word behaves differently. The bond between the node and the collocate is weak ⇢ weak collocation.

The bond between the node and the collocate is very strong ⇢ strong collocation.Ī low score means that the collocate likes to combine with very many other words.

Use view options to display the score.Ī high score means that the collocate is often found together with the node and at the same time there are not very many other nodes that the collocate combines with or it does not combine with them too frequently. The logDice score is used for determining how typical (or how strong) the collocation is. This is the preferred option for most uses because what is frequent is usually not interesting or useful, but typical is. By default, the word sketch is sorted with the most typical collocations at the top.

Combine words to make a new word generator