%0 Journal Article %A Kang, Beom-mo %T Collocation and word association: Comparing collocation measuring methods %D 2018 %J International Journal of Corpus Linguistics %V 23 %N 1 %P 85-113 %@ 1384-6655 %R https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.15116.kan %K rank measure %K language use %K collocation %K word association %K semantic relations %I John Benjamins %X This paper studies the relationship between grammar and language use by comparing word association and collocation. Since word association reveals mental semantic knowledge, usage-based approaches expect word association to mirror the relation between words in use, namely collocation. The paragraph is a more apt unit for collocation than the sentence in mirroring word association. Among measures of collocation, (simple) log likelihood and t-score turn out to be more consistent with association, with log likelihood leading by a small margin over MI or MI3. Overall, word association and collocation are quite close, but not perfectly close because of differences in relevant resources and the characteristics of lexical/semantic relations. %U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/ijcl.15116.kan