BNCInChargeOf            package:corpora            R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This data set lists collocations (in the sense of Sinclair 1991)
     of the phrase _in charge of_ found in the British National Corpus,
     World Edition (BNC).  A span size of 3 and a frequency threshold
     of 5 were used, i.e. all words that occur at least five times
     within a distance of three tokens from the key phrase _in charge
     of_ are listed as collocates.  Note that collocations were not
     allowed to cross sentence boundaries.

     See Aston & Burnard (1998) for more information about the BNC, or
     go to <URL: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/>.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(BNCInChargeOf)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data set with 250 rows and the following columns:

     '_c_o_l_l_o_c_a_t_e': a collocate of the key phrase _in charge of_ (word
          form)

     '_f._i_n': occurrences of the collocate within a distance of 3 tokens
          from the key phrase, i.e. _inside_ the span

     '_N._i_n': total number of tokens inside the span

     '_f._o_u_t': occurrences of the collocate _outside_ the span

     '_N._o_u_t': total number of tokens outside the span

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     Punctuation, numbers and any words containing non-alphabetic
     characters (except for '-') were not considered as potential
     collocates.  Likewise, the number of tokens inside / outside the
     span given in the columns 'N.in' and 'N.out' only includes simple
     alphabetic word forms.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Stefan Evert (<URL: http://purl.org/stefan.evert>)

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Aston, Guy and Burnard, Lou (1998). _The BNC Handbook._ Edinburgh
     University Press, Edinburgh. See also the BNC homepage at <URL:
     http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/>.

     Sinclair, John (1991). _Corpus, Concordance, Collocation._ Oxford
     University Press, Oxford.

