Collocation acquisition from a corpus or from a dictionary: a comparison

This рарѳг focuses on the extractk>n of collocations from the 'Collins-Robert English-French. French-English dictionary". The extraction programme, based on the WordCruncher Text Retrieval software pack­ age. Is Illustrated by the study of the combinatory properties of the word PRICE. The co-occurrence knowledge extracted from the dictionary Is then compared wlth similar data retrieved from a statistically-processed corpus. The two techniques are assessed and shown to be complemen­ tary and mutually enriching.