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Abstract

In this study, we propose a new evaluation scheme to assess the strengths and limitations of collocation extraction measures and explore type-sensitive methods for extracting collocations. We introduced the pooling strategy widely used in Information Retrieval and automated the evaluation process using online dictionaries. Sixteen well-known metrics are evaluated based on their effectiveness and then distributional and linguistic compared. The results show that Group A methods (e.g. z-score, Dice, PMI) are more effective in extracting low-frequency collocations with relatively small extraction scales. In contrast, Group B methods (e.g. t-test, LMI, LLR) perform better at finding high-frequency collocations, most of which outperform Group A methods as the extraction scale increases. Moreover, Group A prefers NN collocations, while Group B identifies collocations with a wide range of syntactic structures. This study provides suggestions for studies to identify hybrid extraction methods as well as for language educators and dictionary compilers.

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