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SCIE - noun-noun collocations

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The collocations below consist of nouns only. Noun-noun collocations are extremely frequent in science (just think of the names of species, chemical compounds or "scientist+invention" type collocations), the current selection is based on a collection of 10000 noun-noun collocations of which Vocabgrabber considered the ones below to belong to "Science".

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  • kalayzich 1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue xii. 535 All languages use greater freedom of collocation in poetry than in prose. Oct 29, 2012

  • gulyasrobi In the age of artificial intelligence and the semantic web, collocations sorted by thematic categories are useful contributions to people who work in the business of CAT and strive to make machine translation tools based on semantically annotated statistical information work better. Oct 29, 2012

  • gulyasrobi Here is a word cloud of about 200 nouns that have proved to be the most productive constituents of noun-noun collocations. The bigger the print the more frequently the noun enters into collocational relationship with others. With these 200 nouns you can compose more than 10000 valid collocations. How can I tell? Because they were derived from more than 10000 noun-noun collocations: http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/5929881/Most_active_noun-noun_collocates Oct 29, 2012

  • gulyasrobi Dear kalayzich,

    Thank you for your comments and corrections.
    Answering your question:
    The purpose of my investigation is having fun with a language I learn and love. Undersanding why certain nouns are more active collocates than others. In other cases: collecting words and collocations that I find useful in my work as an interpreter (for interpreters collocations are a lot more interesting than words, because each collocation represents a neuronal connection).
    No, vocabgrabber wasn't my source, only the tool with which I sorted a big collection (mostly hand-picked) of noun-noun collocations that I had put together over the years. Oy yes, another motivation: I love text-mining as a pastime (I am crazy). However strange it might sound to you: I don't give a (what's the proper word here?) whether I am first or last on this list. That's the point I have always wanted to make. I just like Wordnik and playing around. Maybe too much for my health, but it has little to do with adrenalin. Hope you liked my reply.
    : -)
    Oct 29, 2012

  • kalayzich Im really sorry to inform you that "amino acid" is a noun but
    amino functions as an adjective ie what type of acid
    So Im not convinced of your noun noun approach but Im open to correction.You seem to be hellbent on being number one lister
    here.What is the purpose of your investigation?
    Okay lets go down the list, bighorn sheep,not really science to me
    there.Personally I cant think of all the species
    So you are stealing/borrowing/kidnapping to increase your
    primacy as a word lister,at least you acknowledged your source
    and didnt take the 10,000 on offer.
    Oct 29, 2012