Website to see frequency of use of words together
Once, an English teacher shared with me a website where you can see how certain words are used with others. For instance, you would see the type of words with which "mandatory" and "compulsory" are commonly used and also the frequency of each pair. This is a great tool to understand how people use words in a language that isn't yours.
However, I can't remember the website.
Do you know one that gives the possibility to do such research?
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Once, an English teacher shared with me a website where you can see how certain words are used with others. For instance, you would see the type of words with which "mandatory" and "compulsory" are commonly used and also the frequency of each pair. This is a great tool to understand how people use words in a language that isn't yours.
However, I can't remember the website.
Do you know one that gives the possibility to do such research?
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I'm sorry. Do you wnat me to delete my question? In fact, I ve already seen those links, I have even been looking at various topics and questions what I'm searching for, but fruitless. What can I do to find what I'm searching for please :( ? I desperatly need it.
– Marine Galantin
yesterday
You might delete your question here, and ask on Language Learning, or flag your own question to ask a moderator to migrate it there for you. They take some sorts of resource requests. I'm not sure about the details of what precisely is allowed there though: There may be some restrictions. Try to be as specific as you can, and explain what you've seen and how what you've found isn't what you're looking for if you do.
– Tonepoet
yesterday
1
@Tonepoet resource requests, for whatever reason, are off topic here on main but more importantly very on topic on meta. This mean you should vote to migrate to meta rather than encourage any kind of deleting or re-asking.
– Mitch
yesterday
You might be thinking of something like the Oz Collocation dictionary. (It lists collocations for compulsive but not the other two words.)
– Jason Bassford
yesterday
You can get info on the frequency of phrases using Google's Ngram tool.
– Hot Licks
yesterday
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@Tonepoet Dude. A -3 answer where all the +10 answers say 'keep resource requests on meta'. Also, all the resource questions and answers on meta.
– Mitch
yesterday
@Mitch I do realize that this represents the community will, and that Stack Exchange is normally meant to be run as a democracy. The problem is that there is instruction from one of the highest ranking moderators that it is outside of scope, and the moderators reserve veto power over community judgement. If Robert, in his administrative capacity, says that resource requests don't belong on meta (and he did), then they don't belong on meta...
– Tonepoet
yesterday
@Tonepoet If Robert Cortana cared that much about the issue, the edict would have been promulgated more directly than as an answer to a meta question on a beta site (that QA is on Latin.SE's meta, not Meta.SE). I realize that might have been the first he really thought about it, but he's had almost two years to solidify his position, and so far it hasn't happened.
– 1006a
yesterday
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Once, an English teacher shared with me a website where you can see how certain words are used with others. For instance, you would see the type of words with which "mandatory" and "compulsory" are commonly used and also the frequency of each pair. This is a great tool to understand how people use words in a language that isn't yours.
However, I can't remember the website.
Do you know one that gives the possibility to do such research?
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asked yesterday
Marine GalantinMarine Galantin
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Once, an English teacher shared with me a website where you can see how certain words are used with others. For instance, you would see the type of words with which "mandatory" and "compulsory" are commonly used and also the frequency of each pair. This is a great tool to understand how people use words in a language that isn't yours.
However, I can't remember the website.
Do you know one that gives the possibility to do such research?
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I'm sorry. Do you wnat me to delete my question? In fact, I ve already seen those links, I have even been looking at various topics and questions what I'm searching for, but fruitless. What can I do to find what I'm searching for please :( ? I desperatly need it.
– Marine Galantin
yesterday
You might delete your question here, and ask on Language Learning, or flag your own question to ask a moderator to migrate it there for you. They take some sorts of resource requests. I'm not sure about the details of what precisely is allowed there though: There may be some restrictions. Try to be as specific as you can, and explain what you've seen and how what you've found isn't what you're looking for if you do.
– Tonepoet
yesterday
1
@Tonepoet resource requests, for whatever reason, are off topic here on main but more importantly very on topic on meta. This mean you should vote to migrate to meta rather than encourage any kind of deleting or re-asking.
– Mitch
yesterday
You might be thinking of something like the Oz Collocation dictionary. (It lists collocations for compulsive but not the other two words.)
– Jason Bassford
yesterday
You can get info on the frequency of phrases using Google's Ngram tool.
– Hot Licks
yesterday
3
@Tonepoet Dude. A -3 answer where all the +10 answers say 'keep resource requests on meta'. Also, all the resource questions and answers on meta.
– Mitch
yesterday
@Mitch I do realize that this represents the community will, and that Stack Exchange is normally meant to be run as a democracy. The problem is that there is instruction from one of the highest ranking moderators that it is outside of scope, and the moderators reserve veto power over community judgement. If Robert, in his administrative capacity, says that resource requests don't belong on meta (and he did), then they don't belong on meta...
– Tonepoet
yesterday
@Tonepoet If Robert Cortana cared that much about the issue, the edict would have been promulgated more directly than as an answer to a meta question on a beta site (that QA is on Latin.SE's meta, not Meta.SE). I realize that might have been the first he really thought about it, but he's had almost two years to solidify his position, and so far it hasn't happened.
– 1006a
yesterday
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I'm sorry. Do you wnat me to delete my question? In fact, I ve already seen those links, I have even been looking at various topics and questions what I'm searching for, but fruitless. What can I do to find what I'm searching for please :( ? I desperatly need it.
– Marine Galantin
yesterday
You might delete your question here, and ask on Language Learning, or flag your own question to ask a moderator to migrate it there for you. They take some sorts of resource requests. I'm not sure about the details of what precisely is allowed there though: There may be some restrictions. Try to be as specific as you can, and explain what you've seen and how what you've found isn't what you're looking for if you do.
– Tonepoet
yesterday
1
@Tonepoet resource requests, for whatever reason, are off topic here on main but more importantly very on topic on meta. This mean you should vote to migrate to meta rather than encourage any kind of deleting or re-asking.
– Mitch
yesterday
You might be thinking of something like the Oz Collocation dictionary. (It lists collocations for compulsive but not the other two words.)
– Jason Bassford
yesterday
You can get info on the frequency of phrases using Google's Ngram tool.
– Hot Licks
yesterday
3
@Tonepoet Dude. A -3 answer where all the +10 answers say 'keep resource requests on meta'. Also, all the resource questions and answers on meta.
– Mitch
yesterday
@Mitch I do realize that this represents the community will, and that Stack Exchange is normally meant to be run as a democracy. The problem is that there is instruction from one of the highest ranking moderators that it is outside of scope, and the moderators reserve veto power over community judgement. If Robert, in his administrative capacity, says that resource requests don't belong on meta (and he did), then they don't belong on meta...
– Tonepoet
yesterday
@Tonepoet If Robert Cortana cared that much about the issue, the edict would have been promulgated more directly than as an answer to a meta question on a beta site (that QA is on Latin.SE's meta, not Meta.SE). I realize that might have been the first he really thought about it, but he's had almost two years to solidify his position, and so far it hasn't happened.
– 1006a
yesterday
I'm sorry. Do you wnat me to delete my question? In fact, I ve already seen those links, I have even been looking at various topics and questions what I'm searching for, but fruitless. What can I do to find what I'm searching for please :( ? I desperatly need it.
– Marine Galantin
yesterday
I'm sorry. Do you wnat me to delete my question? In fact, I ve already seen those links, I have even been looking at various topics and questions what I'm searching for, but fruitless. What can I do to find what I'm searching for please :( ? I desperatly need it.
– Marine Galantin
yesterday
You might delete your question here, and ask on Language Learning, or flag your own question to ask a moderator to migrate it there for you. They take some sorts of resource requests. I'm not sure about the details of what precisely is allowed there though: There may be some restrictions. Try to be as specific as you can, and explain what you've seen and how what you've found isn't what you're looking for if you do.
– Tonepoet
yesterday
You might delete your question here, and ask on Language Learning, or flag your own question to ask a moderator to migrate it there for you. They take some sorts of resource requests. I'm not sure about the details of what precisely is allowed there though: There may be some restrictions. Try to be as specific as you can, and explain what you've seen and how what you've found isn't what you're looking for if you do.
– Tonepoet
yesterday
1
1
@Tonepoet resource requests, for whatever reason, are off topic here on main but more importantly very on topic on meta. This mean you should vote to migrate to meta rather than encourage any kind of deleting or re-asking.
– Mitch
yesterday
@Tonepoet resource requests, for whatever reason, are off topic here on main but more importantly very on topic on meta. This mean you should vote to migrate to meta rather than encourage any kind of deleting or re-asking.
– Mitch
yesterday
You might be thinking of something like the Oz Collocation dictionary. (It lists collocations for compulsive but not the other two words.)
– Jason Bassford
yesterday
You might be thinking of something like the Oz Collocation dictionary. (It lists collocations for compulsive but not the other two words.)
– Jason Bassford
yesterday
You can get info on the frequency of phrases using Google's Ngram tool.
– Hot Licks
yesterday
You can get info on the frequency of phrases using Google's Ngram tool.
– Hot Licks
yesterday
3
3
@Tonepoet Dude. A -3 answer where all the +10 answers say 'keep resource requests on meta'. Also, all the resource questions and answers on meta.
– Mitch
yesterday
@Tonepoet Dude. A -3 answer where all the +10 answers say 'keep resource requests on meta'. Also, all the resource questions and answers on meta.
– Mitch
yesterday
@Mitch I do realize that this represents the community will, and that Stack Exchange is normally meant to be run as a democracy. The problem is that there is instruction from one of the highest ranking moderators that it is outside of scope, and the moderators reserve veto power over community judgement. If Robert, in his administrative capacity, says that resource requests don't belong on meta (and he did), then they don't belong on meta...
– Tonepoet
yesterday
@Mitch I do realize that this represents the community will, and that Stack Exchange is normally meant to be run as a democracy. The problem is that there is instruction from one of the highest ranking moderators that it is outside of scope, and the moderators reserve veto power over community judgement. If Robert, in his administrative capacity, says that resource requests don't belong on meta (and he did), then they don't belong on meta...
– Tonepoet
yesterday
@Tonepoet If Robert Cortana cared that much about the issue, the edict would have been promulgated more directly than as an answer to a meta question on a beta site (that QA is on Latin.SE's meta, not Meta.SE). I realize that might have been the first he really thought about it, but he's had almost two years to solidify his position, and so far it hasn't happened.
– 1006a
yesterday
@Tonepoet If Robert Cortana cared that much about the issue, the edict would have been promulgated more directly than as an answer to a meta question on a beta site (that QA is on Latin.SE's meta, not Meta.SE). I realize that might have been the first he really thought about it, but he's had almost two years to solidify his position, and so far it hasn't happened.
– 1006a
yesterday
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Some of the BYU corpora provide the function you want. The BYU interface, and the concepts involved, may present you with a steep learning curve, but the tools there are powerful.
For example, "words with which" a given word is "commonly used" are called "Collocates". If you go to the BYU corpora page (linked in the first paragraph of this answer) and click on the "News on the Web (NOW)" link, then select "Collocates", you can put "mandatory" (no quotes) into the entry box left of "Word/phrase". Put nothing or an asterisk in the entry box next to "Collocates", then select the number of words of interest left or right of "mandatory" in the scale:
In the image, I selected 2 both left and right of "mandatory". Next, clicking the "Find collocates" button below the scale produces this graph (cropped at collocate 19), sorted by default by frequency from highest to lowest:
(Clicking the image above will display a larger version.)
Many parameters can be tweaked; for example, if I'm only interested in words one word to the left of "mandatory rules", I can set up the interface like so:
That setup produces the following graph (cropped at collocate 9):
All features and the methodology are documented at the BYU site, although it may take you a while to find what you're looking for.
Note that the asterisk in the entry box next to "Collocates" can be replaced with a given collocate of interest.
If you're interested in "the types of words" with which a given word is commonly used, rather than simply the words with which a given word is commonly used, you can select a part-of-speech from the dropdown list produced by clicking the "[POS]" next to "Collocates".
Have fun.
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Google n-grams viewer provides some of that information. It shows the frequency with which 1, 2, 3 and 4 word combinations appear in a corpus of books, and additionally, shows the frequency against the year of publication of the books.
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can you please do a working example ?
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Some of the BYU corpora provide the function you want. The BYU interface, and the concepts involved, may present you with a steep learning curve, but the tools there are powerful.
For example, "words with which" a given word is "commonly used" are called "Collocates". If you go to the BYU corpora page (linked in the first paragraph of this answer) and click on the "News on the Web (NOW)" link, then select "Collocates", you can put "mandatory" (no quotes) into the entry box left of "Word/phrase". Put nothing or an asterisk in the entry box next to "Collocates", then select the number of words of interest left or right of "mandatory" in the scale:
In the image, I selected 2 both left and right of "mandatory". Next, clicking the "Find collocates" button below the scale produces this graph (cropped at collocate 19), sorted by default by frequency from highest to lowest:
(Clicking the image above will display a larger version.)
Many parameters can be tweaked; for example, if I'm only interested in words one word to the left of "mandatory rules", I can set up the interface like so:
That setup produces the following graph (cropped at collocate 9):
All features and the methodology are documented at the BYU site, although it may take you a while to find what you're looking for.
Note that the asterisk in the entry box next to "Collocates" can be replaced with a given collocate of interest.
If you're interested in "the types of words" with which a given word is commonly used, rather than simply the words with which a given word is commonly used, you can select a part-of-speech from the dropdown list produced by clicking the "[POS]" next to "Collocates".
Have fun.
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Some of the BYU corpora provide the function you want. The BYU interface, and the concepts involved, may present you with a steep learning curve, but the tools there are powerful.
For example, "words with which" a given word is "commonly used" are called "Collocates". If you go to the BYU corpora page (linked in the first paragraph of this answer) and click on the "News on the Web (NOW)" link, then select "Collocates", you can put "mandatory" (no quotes) into the entry box left of "Word/phrase". Put nothing or an asterisk in the entry box next to "Collocates", then select the number of words of interest left or right of "mandatory" in the scale:
In the image, I selected 2 both left and right of "mandatory". Next, clicking the "Find collocates" button below the scale produces this graph (cropped at collocate 19), sorted by default by frequency from highest to lowest:
(Clicking the image above will display a larger version.)
Many parameters can be tweaked; for example, if I'm only interested in words one word to the left of "mandatory rules", I can set up the interface like so:
That setup produces the following graph (cropped at collocate 9):
All features and the methodology are documented at the BYU site, although it may take you a while to find what you're looking for.
Note that the asterisk in the entry box next to "Collocates" can be replaced with a given collocate of interest.
If you're interested in "the types of words" with which a given word is commonly used, rather than simply the words with which a given word is commonly used, you can select a part-of-speech from the dropdown list produced by clicking the "[POS]" next to "Collocates".
Have fun.
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JELJEL
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Some of the BYU corpora provide the function you want. The BYU interface, and the concepts involved, may present you with a steep learning curve, but the tools there are powerful.
For example, "words with which" a given word is "commonly used" are called "Collocates". If you go to the BYU corpora page (linked in the first paragraph of this answer) and click on the "News on the Web (NOW)" link, then select "Collocates", you can put "mandatory" (no quotes) into the entry box left of "Word/phrase". Put nothing or an asterisk in the entry box next to "Collocates", then select the number of words of interest left or right of "mandatory" in the scale:
In the image, I selected 2 both left and right of "mandatory". Next, clicking the "Find collocates" button below the scale produces this graph (cropped at collocate 19), sorted by default by frequency from highest to lowest:
(Clicking the image above will display a larger version.)
Many parameters can be tweaked; for example, if I'm only interested in words one word to the left of "mandatory rules", I can set up the interface like so:
That setup produces the following graph (cropped at collocate 9):
All features and the methodology are documented at the BYU site, although it may take you a while to find what you're looking for.
Note that the asterisk in the entry box next to "Collocates" can be replaced with a given collocate of interest.
If you're interested in "the types of words" with which a given word is commonly used, rather than simply the words with which a given word is commonly used, you can select a part-of-speech from the dropdown list produced by clicking the "[POS]" next to "Collocates".
Have fun.
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JELJEL
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Some of the BYU corpora provide the function you want. The BYU interface, and the concepts involved, may present you with a steep learning curve, but the tools there are powerful.
For example, "words with which" a given word is "commonly used" are called "Collocates". If you go to the BYU corpora page (linked in the first paragraph of this answer) and click on the "News on the Web (NOW)" link, then select "Collocates", you can put "mandatory" (no quotes) into the entry box left of "Word/phrase". Put nothing or an asterisk in the entry box next to "Collocates", then select the number of words of interest left or right of "mandatory" in the scale:
In the image, I selected 2 both left and right of "mandatory". Next, clicking the "Find collocates" button below the scale produces this graph (cropped at collocate 19), sorted by default by frequency from highest to lowest:
(Clicking the image above will display a larger version.)
Many parameters can be tweaked; for example, if I'm only interested in words one word to the left of "mandatory rules", I can set up the interface like so:
That setup produces the following graph (cropped at collocate 9):
All features and the methodology are documented at the BYU site, although it may take you a while to find what you're looking for.
Note that the asterisk in the entry box next to "Collocates" can be replaced with a given collocate of interest.
If you're interested in "the types of words" with which a given word is commonly used, rather than simply the words with which a given word is commonly used, you can select a part-of-speech from the dropdown list produced by clicking the "[POS]" next to "Collocates".
Have fun.
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Google n-grams viewer provides some of that information. It shows the frequency with which 1, 2, 3 and 4 word combinations appear in a corpus of books, and additionally, shows the frequency against the year of publication of the books.
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can you please do a working example ?
– Marine Galantin
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Google n-grams viewer provides some of that information. It shows the frequency with which 1, 2, 3 and 4 word combinations appear in a corpus of books, and additionally, shows the frequency against the year of publication of the books.
answered yesterday
user02814user02814
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can you please do a working example ?
– Marine Galantin
16 hours ago
add a comment |
Google n-grams viewer provides some of that information. It shows the frequency with which 1, 2, 3 and 4 word combinations appear in a corpus of books, and additionally, shows the frequency against the year of publication of the books.
answered yesterday
user02814user02814
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Google n-grams viewer provides some of that information. It shows the frequency with which 1, 2, 3 and 4 word combinations appear in a corpus of books, and additionally, shows the frequency against the year of publication of the books.
answered yesterday
user02814user02814
51221
answered yesterday
user02814user02814
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answered yesterday
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answered yesterday
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can you please do a working example ?
– Marine Galantin
16 hours ago
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can you please do a working example ?
– Marine Galantin
16 hours ago
can you please do a working example ?
– Marine Galantin
16 hours ago
can you please do a working example ?
– Marine Galantin
16 hours ago
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I'm sorry. Do you wnat me to delete my question? In fact, I ve already seen those links, I have even been looking at various topics and questions what I'm searching for, but fruitless. What can I do to find what I'm searching for please :( ? I desperatly need it.
– Marine Galantin
yesterday
You might delete your question here, and ask on Language Learning, or flag your own question to ask a moderator to migrate it there for you. They take some sorts of resource requests. I'm not sure about the details of what precisely is allowed there though: There may be some restrictions. Try to be as specific as you can, and explain what you've seen and how what you've found isn't what you're looking for if you do.
– Tonepoet
yesterday
1
@Tonepoet resource requests, for whatever reason, are off topic here on main but more importantly very on topic on meta. This mean you should vote to migrate to meta rather than encourage any kind of deleting or re-asking.
– Mitch
yesterday
You might be thinking of something like the Oz Collocation dictionary. (It lists collocations for compulsive but not the other two words.)
– Jason Bassford
yesterday
You can get info on the frequency of phrases using Google's Ngram tool.
– Hot Licks
yesterday
3
@Tonepoet Dude. A -3 answer where all the +10 answers say 'keep resource requests on meta'. Also, all the resource questions and answers on meta.
– Mitch
yesterday
@Mitch I do realize that this represents the community will, and that Stack Exchange is normally meant to be run as a democracy. The problem is that there is instruction from one of the highest ranking moderators that it is outside of scope, and the moderators reserve veto power over community judgement. If Robert, in his administrative capacity, says that resource requests don't belong on meta (and he did), then they don't belong on meta...
– Tonepoet
yesterday
@Tonepoet If Robert Cortana cared that much about the issue, the edict would have been promulgated more directly than as an answer to a meta question on a beta site (that QA is on Latin.SE's meta, not Meta.SE). I realize that might have been the first he really thought about it, but he's had almost two years to solidify his position, and so far it hasn't happened.
– 1006a
yesterday