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Collocation analysis

TCSE provides collocation analysis to help you discover which words frequently co-occur with your search term. This is valuable for understanding natural word combinations and improving vocabulary knowledge.

How to access

  1. Click on N-gram to switch to N-gram mode
  2. Enter a search word

  3. Click on the Colloc 2 or Colloc 3 tab

  4. Colloc 2: Shows 2-word collocations (bigrams containing your search term)

  5. Colloc 3: Shows 3-word collocations (trigrams containing your search term)

Colloc 2 and Colloc 3 tabs in N-gram mode

Sort options

You can sort collocation results by different statistical measures:

Measure Description
MI (Mutual Information) Measures how strongly two words are associated. Higher values indicate stronger, often more specific collocations.
t-score Balances association strength with frequency. Tends to highlight frequent, reliable collocations.
Freq (Frequency) Simple co-occurrence frequency count.
DP (Delta P) Directional association measure. Shows how much more likely word B is given word A, compared to its overall probability.

Collocation results sorted by MI score

Tips

  • MI scores tend to highlight rare but strongly associated pairs
  • t-scores are better for finding common, reliable collocations useful for learners
  • Try different sort options to get different perspectives on word combinations
  • Click on any collocation to search for its instances in the transcript corpus