This will generate a table of multi-word units that occur in the wildcard positions of your search.
You can access this by selecting the 'Multi-Word Units' option in the 'Internal Collocates' group in the 'Select a task..' drop down menu on the results screen. Some options to help you refine the collocate results will be displayed below the 'Select a task...' menu.
The options are:
Checking this option will group together results that differ only by case. This is unchecked by default (case sensitive).
This specifies how to treat part-of-speech tags when building the table. The options are:
| Ignore | POS tags won't be considered and the results will grouped by only the words. This is the default. |
| Attach | POS tags will be attached to each word and results will be broken down according to both. |
| Only | Words will be ignored and the results will be grouped only by POS tags. |
Checking this option will exclude multi-word units containing only stopwords from the table. Unchecking it will include them. This is checked by default (exclude).
Entering a value into this box will specify the minimum number of times each multi-word unit must occur to be included in the table. The default is 5.
Entering a value in this box will specify the maximum number of results to display in the table. Entering 0 or leaving the box blank will remove any limit. The default is 1000.
A separate table will be shown for each internal collocate group with the following columns:
| MWU | The multi-word unit collocate. This may be made up of words, POS tags or both depending on the POS option chosen. |
| Frequency | The number of times the multi-word unit occurs. |
Note that not all of these columns may be included depending on the options selected.
The table will be sorted on the 'Frequency' column.