Computing thresholds of linguistic saliency

Siaw Fong Chung; Kathleen Virginia Ahrens; Chung Ping Cheng; Chu-ren Huang; Petr Šimon

Computing thresholds of linguistic saliency

Siaw Fong Chung, Kathleen Virginia Ahrens, Chung Ping Cheng, Chu-ren Huang, Petr Šimon

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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Abstract

We propose and test several computational methods to automatically determine possible saliency cut-off points in Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff and Tugwell, 2001). Sketch Engine currently displays collocations in descending importance, as well as according to grammatical relations. However, Sketch Engine does not provide suggestions for a cut-off point such that any items above this cut-off point may be considered significantly salient. This proposal suggests improvement to the present Sketch Engine interface by calculating three different cut-off point methods, so that the presentation of results can be made more meaningful to users. In addition, our findings also contribute to linguistic analyses based on empirical data.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PACLIC 21 - The 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Proceedings
Pages	126-135
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2007
Externally published	Yes
Event	21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 21 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 1 Nov 2007 → 3 Nov 2007

Conference

Conference	21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 21
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	1/11/07 → 3/11/07

Keywords

Collocations
Cut-off point
Saliency
Threshold

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
Linguistics and Language

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Computing thresholds of linguistic saliency. / Chung, Siaw Fong; Ahrens, Kathleen Virginia; Cheng, Chung Ping et al.
PACLIC 21 - The 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Proceedings. 2007. p. 126-135.

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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