Automatic Construction of CollocationsDictionary Based on Text Mining

A collocations dictionary is the useful component to many natural language and spoken language processing application such as grammar checking, text-speech conversion and machine translation. Currently The collocations dictionary is constructed artificially, firstly it may not be updated frequently and many lexicon entries may be not available. Secondly to construct a dictionary may need lots of human resources. In this paper, text-mining approach for constructing a collocations dictionary is surveyed. The main purpose is to enable cheap and quick acquisition of a collocations dictionary from a large text corpus. Experimental results show that the approach is effective and suitable.