TY  - JOUR
AU  - Spence, Donald P.
AU  - Owens, Kimberly C.
T1  - Lexical co-occurrence and association strength
JO  - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research  
PY  - 1990/
VL  - 19
IS  - 
SP  - 317
EP  - 330
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01074363
M3  - 10.1007/BF01074363
KW  - association
KW  - nlp
KW  - cooccurrence
KW  - toread
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SN  - 
N1  - SpringerLink - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research , Volume 19, Number 5
N1  - 
AB  - The 1-million-word Brown corpus was searched for co-occurrences of semantically related pairs of concrete nouns appearing within an arbitrary window of 250 characters. Related pairs of nouns (OCEAN-WATER) co-occur significantly more often than matched, unrelated pairs (OCEAN-HAND), and this difference remained significant within blocks of text up to 1000 characters in length. Frequency of co-occurrence, corrected for chance, is significantly correlated with association strength. Lexical distance between co-occurring members of a given pair is inversely correlated with association strength. Significantly more co-occurrences were found, per unit text, in the fictional sections of the corpus.
ER  -