Determining the Unithood of Word Sequences using Mutual Information and Independence Measure

Most works related to unithood were conducted as part of a larger effort for the determination of termhood. Consequently, the number of independent research that study the notion of unithood and produce dedicated techniques for measuring unithood is extremely small. We propose a new approach, independent of any influences of termhood, that provides dedicated measures to gather linguistic evidence from parsed text and statistical evidence from Google search engine for the measurement of unithood. Our evaluations revealed a precision and recall of

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Wilson Wong, Wei Liu, Mohammed Bennamoun
• Keywords: CORR 2008, Education, Independent Research, Larger Effort, Most Works