{"title":"What do (some of) our association measures measure (most)? Association?","authors":"S. Gries","doi":"10.1075/jsls.21028.gri","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n This paper discusses the degree to which some of the most widely-used measures of association in corpus\n linguistics are not particularly valid in the sense of actually measuring association rather than some amalgam of a lot of\n frequency and a little association. The paper demonstrates these issues on the basis of hypothetical and actual corpus data and\n outlines implications of the findings. I then outline how to design an association measure that only measures association and show\n that its behavior supports the use of the log odds ratio as a true association-only measure but separately from frequency; in\n addition, this paper sets the stage for an analogous review of dispersion measures in corpus linguistics.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jsls.21028.gri","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper discusses the degree to which some of the most widely-used measures of association in corpus
linguistics are not particularly valid in the sense of actually measuring association rather than some amalgam of a lot of
frequency and a little association. The paper demonstrates these issues on the basis of hypothetical and actual corpus data and
outlines implications of the findings. I then outline how to design an association measure that only measures association and show
that its behavior supports the use of the log odds ratio as a true association-only measure but separately from frequency; in
addition, this paper sets the stage for an analogous review of dispersion measures in corpus linguistics.
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