5 Collocation

Coming soon: I will extend this section soon with some hands-on examples.

Major Concepts

• Collocation and Co-occurrence
• Frequency and relative frequency
• Reproducibility and coding

Perception of Quantities

Frequency of occurrence is used as an indicator

How do we perceive quantity?

Weber-Fechner Law

• human perception is based on ratios, not absolute values
• absolute differences become exponentially less informative