Patent ID: 8473278

Claim:
A computer-implemented system for detecting collocation errors in a text sample using a reference database from a text corpus, the system comprising: a processing system; and a computer-readable memory coupled to the processing system, the processing system being configured to execute steps comprising: identifying collocation candidates within the text sample based upon syntactic patterns in the text sample; detecting whether a given collocation candidate contains a collocation error, the detecting including: determining a first association measure using the reference database for the given collocation candidate; determining whether the first association measure satisfies a predetermined condition and identifying the given collocation candidate as proper if the first association measure satisfies the predetermined condition; determining an additional association measure for a variation of the given collocation candidate using the reference database; determining whether or not the collocation candidate contains an error based upon the additional association measure of the variation; and storing an indicator of whether a collocation candidate contains a collocation error in a computer-readable memory.