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  <Title>Learning Bilingual Collocations by Word-Level Sorting</Title>
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have described a new method for learning bilingual collocations from parallel corpora. Our method consists of two steps: (1) extracting useful word chunks by the word-level sorting technique and (2) constructing bilingual collocations by combining these chunks. This architecture reflects the fact that fixed collocations play a more crucial role than accepted in previous research.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Our method not only extracts fixed collocations with high precision but also reduces the combinatorial explosion that would be otherwise considered inescapable in extracting flexible collocations. Although our research is in the preliminary stage and tested with a small number of Japanese stock market bulletins and their English, the experimental results have shown a number of interesting collocations that are not contained in a dictionary of economic terms.</Paragraph>
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