STRUCTURAL FEATURES AND DEFINING COLLOCATIONS IN ENGLISH

Since the definition, application, and evaluation of statistical association measures that take into account the linguistic properties of terms and collocations are the main objectives of this thesis, it is first necessary to substantiate in detail the distinctive characteristics of these linguistic expressions that have been proposed in the scientific literature. One can assume that there is a great amount of study material on the topic of collocations and words, so any attempt to present an overview will inevitably need to focus in on the key points, especially in the context of a computational approach like this one