@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/ijcl.18.1.09gri, author = "Gries, Stefan Th.", title = "50-something years of work on collocations: What is or should be next …", journal= "International Journal of Corpus Linguistics", year = "2013", volume = "18", number = "1", pages = "137-166", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.18.1.09gri", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/ijcl.18.1.09gri", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "1384-6655", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "association measure", keywords = "dispersion", keywords = "collocation", keywords = "directionality", keywords = "DP (delta P)", abstract = "This paper explores ways in which research into collocation should be improved. After a discussion of the parameters underlying the notion of collocation, the paper has three main parts. First, I argue that corpus linguistics would benefit from taking more seriously the understudied fact that collocations are not necessarily symmetric, as most association measures imply. Also, I introduce an association measure from the associative learning literature that can identify asymmetric collocations and show that it can also distinguish collocations with high and low association strengths well. Second, I summarize some advantages of this measure and brainstorm about ways in which it can help re-examine previous studies as well as support further applications. Finally, I adopt a broader perspective and discuss a variety of ways in which all association measures – directional or not – in corpus linguistics should be improved in order for us to obtain better and more reliable results.", }