Content

This data package contains 2 millions english collocations with example sentences.

Description

Extensive database of 2 million English collocations for 43 thousand English words.

Collocations have been extracted from a dependency-parsed corpus with more than 2 billion words. Main text sources were:

• 20,000 books from Project Gutenberg
• full text of the English Wikipedia
• British National Corpus

Each collocation includes the following information:

• Collocation (e.g. heavy smoker)
• Significance
• 3 English examples
• Basis word
• Syntactic relation

Syntactic Relations

Syntactic relation	example
subject-verb	police arrest
verb-object	start conversation
verb-direct object-indirect object	lend drilling machine neighbour
verb-prepositional object	wobble onto floor
verb-direct object-prepositional object	drive nail into wall
verb-subclause verb	let move
verb-subclause verb with „to	force to resign
verb-adverb	work hard
adjective-noun	white paper
adjective-preposition	conversant with
adverb-adjective	really practical
noun with genitive attribute	man’s friend
noun compound	mega prize
noun with prepositional phrase	cloud of smoke

Testing

Variant 1:
You can query all 4 millions collocations in this online demo tool: http://linguatools.de/kollokationen-en/

Variant 2:
You can test the free API.

Format

If you license the data package of the English Collocations you will recieve the data package as XML, CSV, sqlite3 or in another desired format as a file for download.

Licensing conditions

Only for commercial use.
Please contact Peter Kolb (peter.kolb@linguatools.org) for more information.

English collocations as API

For the english collocations we provide an API.
Description and testing of the API: https://linguatools.org/language-apis/linguatools-collocation-api/

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