论文信息 - CALCULATING AVERAGE COLLOCATION FREQUENCY WITH THE ACFTOOL

CALCULATING AVERAGE COLLOCATION FREQUENCY WITH THE ACFTOOL

In order to further research on the impact of collocations on readability, we have developed a software tool called ACFCalc. This tool calculates the Average Collocation Frequency for a sample text, based upon collocation frequency data from the sample text and from a reference corpus. The present paper describes the features of the ACFCalc application and details its requirements, in terms of Collocation Frequency Lists (CFLs).

George R. S. Weir | N. K. Anagnostou

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