Getting One's First Million ...Collocations

Many-long-years-of experience in creating a very large database of Russian collocations is summarized. The collocations here described are syntactically connected and semantically compatible pairs of content components(single or multi-words. We begin from a synopsis of various applications of collocation databases (CDBs). Then we describe the main features of collocation components, syntactic types of collocations, and links of other nature between their components that amplify the applicability of the enclosing systems. All of the above-mentioned characterizes the CrossLexica system created for Russian but with a universal structure suited for other languages. The statistics of CrossLexica is given and discussed. It now contains more that a million collocations and more than a million WordNet-like links.

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