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  <Title>Violeta.Seretan@latl.unige.ch</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Althoughtraditionallyseenasa languageindependenttask, collocation extraction relies nowadays more and more on the linguistic preprocessing of texts (e.g., lemmatization,POStagging,chunkingor parsing) prior to the applicationof statistical measures. This paper provides a language-orientedreview of the existing extraction work. It points out severallanguage-specificissuesrelatedtoex- null tractionand proposesa strategy for coping withthem. It thendescribesa hybrid extractionsystembasedon a multilingual parser. Finally, it presentsa case-studyon theperformanceofanassociationmeasure acrossa numberoflanguages.</Paragraph>
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