Development·July 2024·7 min read
Building a multilingual collocation engine with SpaCy
How we implemented grammatical collocation extraction across 23 languages using SpaCy's dependency parsing and configurable statistical measures.
Antonio J. Moreno OrtizPrincipal Investigator, Tecnolengua
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Collocation extraction is fundamental to corpus linguistics. Building a system that works across 23 languages required careful engineering with SpaCy's multilingual models.
The challenge of multilingual collocations
Different languages have different syntactic structures, which means collocation patterns vary significantly. We needed a flexible system that could adapt to each language's grammar while maintaining consistent output quality.
SpaCyCollocationsNLPDevelopment