Adjective noun pairs

[rg...@holyfamily.edu]

Hello Mike,

I'm doing a search for adjective noun pairs using this string - "<JJ*>* <NN>*"

WS 7 only returned a little over 16,000 concordance lines for a corpus of 3 million plus words, but many lines contained more than one adjective noun pair, as with these two examples:

There is a notable , yet lesser emphasis on early literacy .              

richer data and establishing greater levels of trust with participants . 

Any ideas on how I could get one adjective noun pair per concordance line?

Thanks in advance,

Roger

[Mike Scott]

Roger, hi

I need clarification. 

1. You said "only": does that mean you think there were more?

2. Do you get the lesser emphasis example (with lesser emphasis centred) repeated in a later line with early literacy centred? (That's what I'd expect, giving you two lines for these 2 pairs)

If you do, then you already have only one pair of <JJ*> <NN> centred in in each concordance line. Solution wd be to ignore the colouring in the rest of the line.

Cheers -- MIke

[rg...@holyfamily.edu]

No, I just get the one line - here is a screenshot with the line in question being line 16,404. I say only as it works out to about 5 per 1000.

N Concordance

16,402 considerably more available for and amenable to the completion of the survey pa

16,403                      Yet , fewer than 12 % of the community colleges surveyed ha

16,404    There is a notable , yet lesser emphasis on early literacy . 

16,405 onsumer demographic , yet younger females’ sample size already outperformed ol

16,406 yet least examined terms in the human science . 

16,407 these experiences and yield more indepth data than communicating in a language 

16,408 e credible and yield greater statistical power ( Fraley & Vazire , 2014 ) . 

[Mike Scott]

I mean this sort of thing. FAINT LIGHT is in line 2 and appears again in line 3 which is centred on ACIENT PICTURES. In your data something in line 16,404 could be in any other line.

Re only, I don't know what we ought to expect. Will need to research more.

Cheers -- Mike